She broke the foot several days ago and was transported to the hospital. They wanted to get her into surgery but delayed because of possible incoming covid cases and sent her home.
Two days later she's been sitting in the same chair at home because she can't walk, and her hygiene is uncared for. An ambulance was called again today but when they arrived the medics told them that the hospital wasn't admitting anything but 'emergency' patients, and apparently a 92 year old woman with a broken foot stewing in her own juice in a living room chair isn't an emergency.
This is a motherfucking crime, and neither the government nor the health care system gives one shit about it. I'm boiling with hatred for every one of these thugs.
Welcome to socialized medicine. Instead of cost being the prohibitive factor, it's, "Your injury is not severe enough to warrant medical attention."
Yes. A scarce resource always requires a means of rationing. If price is not allowed to be that means, something else is required by natural law to take it's place. In the case of communist healthcare, it is time. Yes, it will cost you nothing to see the doctor. Nothing but time. Come back in 9 months I hope you don't die in the meantime.
It makes me wonder... maybe all of this covid nonsense is (in addition to all of the other reasons) a backdoor way of implementing socialized medicine in the U.S. No healthcare facilities get funds except for govt funds for (f)covid patients.
"Your family doesn't have significant medical problems, so you don't get a family doctor."
It's unlikely I would be taking up much of my doctors time if I had one, but if I had a sane, helpful doctor it would be nice to at least have that relationship.