Woman dies in hopital waiting room

[Edwina's Secretary]

Why were they even operating at all? They said mostly poor, no insurance
patients are treated (or not) there. Is that true?

Yes, it is a hospital...like County General or Cook County Hospital...that serves mostly poor, uninsured people. But for them...it is better than no medical care at all I suppose.

Because our medical delivery system is focused on those with insurance...this is where the uninsured go. What number of Americans are uninsured? 47 million or so? Scary? And none of us really know if we will be one of the 47 million tomorrow.

Is there a healthcare crisis?

[ratdogg]

i read about this story on some local news website and they had the 911 tapes to listen to. It was really astounding to listen to the dispatcher say it isn't an emergency.