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Interesting video. You seemed to catch my drift (on Field Negro) that all is not well in the European socialist model.
Just for comparison, my own mother was in the hospital here, longest wait was about 5.5 hours. The nurse took one look at her and triaged her as not having had a stroke, but did not tell me this or I would have taken her home. After the wait they did work her up and there was nothing much wrong, just very elderly and not healthy.
At a different time, she was admitted to the hospital for a loss of consciousness and she did exactly what the woman in the video did, go up and over the side and break her hip. The nurse that had been watching her and another patient in the same demented condition, had apparently turned her back around 4:00 am. They appeared to have a nurse dedicated to watching these two elderly demented patients 24/7 because the hospital has rules about not tying patients into their beds. Apparently it is extremely common for elderly patients to think that thye have been "Kidnapped," when they are taken to the hospital.
The conditions in Spain are quite similar in certain places here in Southern California. Not enough staff, people in the hallways etcetera. The root cause?
In my mother's case, she received what I consider to be excellent care and way more than she deserved considering the way that she did not care for her own health or follow her doctor's recommendations over the course of her life. She had surgeries, physical therapy, drugs, transfusions and quantities of viscously expensive drugs paid for by Medicare and the policy she inherited from my father. Huge amount of money spent by the taxpayers. The issue of end care is another one all together, however.
Lady-Cracker:
If any of this were easy it would have been solved already, indeed.
I am not against the drive by some in America to advocate for improved health care for the masses.
I am against their attempts to show Europe (and Cuba) as the promised land for health care and the best interests of the common man. It is a flat out lie.
If we were to have a more even keeled debate and adjust our present system this would be satisfactory to me.
I only wish that the term "People over Profits" would be applied to those who are inclined to complain and yet resist going into these hospitals at a lower pay rate and thus provide more abundant nursing care for these individuals in need.
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