Thursday, October 08, 2009

AWPC: Who Needs Universal Health Care?

This should never happen in a civilized nation.
Me: Should I get help?

Coworker: Just give me a minute. I can't afford to go out of here in an ambulance again.
It was a blood pressure spike caused by a stressful situation. They took some meds and within an hour had returned to normal. Thank goodness.

But can we really consider ourselves as good as the rest of the developed world when a gainfully employed individual covered by the company insurance plan still feels they can't afford a trip to the hospital? Not even when I find them squatting and sweating by a machine in a panic and have to fetch their medicine from twenty feet away because they can't stand up? How screwed up is that?

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