Man Dies After Waiting 34 Hours in ER

AOL News ^ | 9/25/2008 | AOL

[SargeK]

"Canadian officials want to know why a wheelchair-bound man waited for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency waiting room before dying from a bladder infection..."

[SargeK]

Tell me again why we want Canadian-style health care?

Sorry if this is a duplicate - the search function seems to be unavailable.

[AmericaUnited]

It's his own fault. If you don't grab a “next” number from the dispenser you bring this on yourself...

[StAntKnee]

Biden-wise, if the guy’d been standing up like he was told, he wouldn’ta died.

[I_Like_Spam]

At least his wait didn’t cost him anything more out of pocket.

He would have been seen in the United States, but he might have been inconvenienced with having to pay.

[StAntKnee]

Good one. Bettern mine.

[Perdogg]

LMAO!!!! GMTA

[Uncle Miltie]

Obamacare: Coming soon to a hospital near you!

[muir_redwoods]

"....a wheelchair-bound man waited for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency waiting room before dying from a bladder infection..."

I don't suppose that hurt much, ya think?

[davisfh]

Hell! Waiting that long in an emergency room would kill me and I’m relatively healthy.

[Chode]

he got what he paid for... nothing.

[Temple Owl]

ping.
It’s right up there with Cuba’s health system. Hillary would like it.

[rstrahan]

Last week, a restaurant owner went to the Trauma Center at Parkland Hospital, the county funded, major hospital in Dallas, and died after wating 19 hours in the waiting room.

Everyone’s very apologetic, but 19 hours. We’ve already got Canada care.

[umgud]

Well, he was in a waiting room.

[Elsiejay]

Perhaps too many alien invaders ahead of him.

[Verginius Rufus]

Parkland Hospital is famous as the hospital where JFK died.

That is, unless you accept the rumor that he's being kept alive in a coma there...

[Wuli]

Government “universal” health insurance, at its finest!!! /sarc

[MichiganConservative]

This will be what “ObamaCare” is like. Or “JennyCare”, if Michiganders are stupid enough to go the socialist medicine route.

[Lizavetta]

Every day I am so thankful that when I took my daughter, who was heading into a ketoacidotic diabetic coma, into our little Sierra Foothills emergency room, the place was EMPTY, they whisked her in and knew what was wrong with her in about 2 minutes. They were fabulous.

[beaversmom]

Isn’t Parkland where they deliver all those anchor babies?

[Krankor]

Canadian officials want to know why a wheelchair-bound man waited for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency waiting room before dying from a bladder infection..."

Sheesh, they make it sound like the guy shouldn't have dragged it out so long- like he shoulda just died after waiting maybe 3 or 4 hours tops.