People Or Profits?
People or Profits?
In Almeda County, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because the
hospital's computer showed that she didn't have insurance. Hours later, her baby
was born dead in a county hospital. In San Bernardino, a hospital surgeon sent a
patient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county medical center after
examining him and declaring his condition stable. The patient arrived at the
county medical center dying, he suffered a cardiac arrest, and died. These two
hospitals shifted these patients to county facilities not for medical reasons,
but for economic ones -- the receiving hospitals feared they wouldn't be paid
for treating the patient. What's right? People or profit? Should there be
death or tragedy at the result of poverty and high health care costs, or should
a business such as a hospital lose millions everyday to give health care to
those who can't afford it? An average person like me would feel for the person
who could not afford sufficient......
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