I was going to post it in an open thread but the drift of the current open thread is frivolous and this is too serious to put there (and I want it to be seen.) Nyceve's posts have been eye-opening and shocking. This is absolutely horrifying. The fact that this has happened before is just beyond
words.
Remember idiot Bush's infamous statement that people, "...could always go to the emergency room"?
Horror Movie(Michaelmoore site story moved down page)
A woman with clinical evidence of psychological problems is left waiting at a Brooklyn hospital for 24 hours. For a bed. To get the help she needed. Security cameras capture the moment she falls (face first) to the floor.
No one helps her.
Not the other patients waiting (who're probably not capable)
Not the security guards who're stationed there.
Not the F***ing hospital staff!! !!#%@
She was convulsing. No one lifts a finger to help her for almost an hour. When another waiting patient finally goes for help - the woman has died.
Alone on a cold linoleum floor. IN A HOSPITAL. I am just overwhelmed with sadness for Esmin Green and Edith Isabel Rodriguez.
Yeah, George... go to the emergency room and, if you don't die there you will be hounded for payment to the point of bankruptcy.
I can't help but think that I wouldn't have died in the same situation because I am white. I'd only be bankrupted but at least I'd be alive.