Gotta love Texas.
Oct. 21st, 2008 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingWomen spends 19 hours in Emergency room of hospital without being seen by a doctor, is charged $162.
Bonus: Because she *can't* get medical care, she's using a hillbilly splint for her fractured leg and HOPING it's going to heal correctly.
Extra bonus: Same hospital, a few days earlier, another man showed up with chest pain, waited 19 hours, and then died of cardiac arrest. Without being seen by doctors.
Super mega bonus: The commenters are all doom and gloom about how thankful they are that they don't have socialised medicine, because, you know, more funding for hospitals in total, much lower cost per patient, and people having the ability to see a doctor for preventative care rather than waiting and needing emergency care are all BAD things. Really.
Bonus: Because she *can't* get medical care, she's using a hillbilly splint for her fractured leg and HOPING it's going to heal correctly.
Extra bonus: Same hospital, a few days earlier, another man showed up with chest pain, waited 19 hours, and then died of cardiac arrest. Without being seen by doctors.
Super mega bonus: The commenters are all doom and gloom about how thankful they are that they don't have socialised medicine, because, you know, more funding for hospitals in total, much lower cost per patient, and people having the ability to see a doctor for preventative care rather than waiting and needing emergency care are all BAD things. Really.