Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

[bugscoe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Polls show Canadians and the Brits wouldn't trade their system for ours

Sr's will fight to the death for their medicare

Are you saying the seniors have no right to be pissed about not getting a service they've paid all their adult working life for at an average around $64,971 per person?

I'm pretty sure Bernie Madoff is sitting in jail for running a similar scam.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from bugscoe:

Was getting ignored a polling question?

UK MAN COLLAPSES IN HOSPITAL & DIES AFTER NURSES IGNORE HIM FOR 10 HRS.
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:02pm by Jonathon M. Seidl

When 41-year-old Peter Thompson arrived in a UK hospital after having a concoction of alcohol and drugs, it’s reasonable to expect that he would have bene treated. He wasn’t. Instead, he collapsed on the floor, just 200 yards from the emergency center. And there he lay, for 10 hours, as nurses stepped around him dismissing him as a mere drunk. He died because of the inaction.

But adding to the horror is how Thompson’s body was treated after he died — he was dragged through the hall like “a dead animal,” his family said.

The Daily Mail reports:The incident happened at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in April last year where Thompson was a voluntary patient for drug and alcohol programs. When he showed up he had a bottle of Vodka that he refused to surrender. Nurses decided to let him “sleep it off.”

The hospital and the family have reached a settlement in the case.

“It seems to me undeniable that the jury came to a conclusion the death was wholly preventable,” a local coroner said during an investigation into the matter.

Britain uses a socialized medicine model run by an organization called the NHS.

Yet polls show they preferred their system over the US system

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2009/aug/14/nhs-health

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from bugscoe:

Are you saying the seniors have no right to be pissed about not getting a service they've paid all their adult working life for at an average around $64,971 per person?

I'm pretty sure Bernie Madoff is sitting in jail for running a similar scam.

A Sr can spend much more then 65,000 on medical costs.Point is they love their government health care

 

[CaptainObvious]

Quote from Lucrum:

No shit, not only do working tax payers have to pay his medical expenses we get to pay his room and board to boot.

This guy doesn't seem like your run of the mill freeloader to me. He had a decent job for many years. While I don't condone his "solution" to the problem, desperate people will do desperate and irrational things.
The fact of the matter is, had the banking terrorists not swarmed through our economic system like a bunch of financial locusts, this guy would still be driving a truck for Coca-Cola. As it is, he's 59, in poor health with limited skill sets. In today's world that makes him virtually unemployable.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from bigarrow:

What are you worried about unless you're getting paid for posting it isn't costing you anything.

Cute, but yeah it's costing us tax payers plenty.

 

[seneca_roman]

Quote from Lucrum:

Cute, but yeah it's costing us tax payers plenty.

What this dude did is small potatoes compared to the uninsured who use E rooms for their free medical care and guess who pays for that most inefficient form of delivery of medical services.

I went to an E room recently (bad ass nose bleed) and I think I was the only one who had insurance out of the 9 or 10 people who got seen before me. I could hear what was going on at the admissions desk, and when they were asked if they had insurance they were all saying no.

Seneca

ps-this dude must have researched his crime as robbing banks usually gets you into something like Club Fed with much better health care than state run prisons.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from seneca_roman:

What this dude did is small potatoes compared to the uninsured who use E rooms for their free medical care and guess who pays for that most inefficient form of delivery of medical services.

I went to an E room recently (bad ass nose bleed) and I think I was the only one who had insurance out of the 9 or 10 people who got seen before me. I could hear what was going on at the admissions desk, and when they were asked if they had insurance they were all saying no.

Seneca

Personally I think emergency rooms should be for...well...emergencies and NOTHING else. Being unwilling or unable (allowed) to refuse ER admissions for all else is just more of the pussification of the U.S.

 

[bugscoe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

A Sr can spend much more then 65,000 on medical costs.Point is they love their government health care

That's because it's a service they've already paid for.

 

[bugscoe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Yet polls show they preferred their system over the US system

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2009/aug/14/nhs-health

Where is the poll that shows Americans preferring their system?

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from bugscoe:

Where is the poll that shows Americans preferring their system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care#cite_note-49

Public opinion in the United States

Since at least 1987, polls have shown the majority of the public favor a single-payer system when a New York Times/CBS Poll showed 78 percent of people are in favor of such a system.[50]

Between 2003 to 2009, 17 opinion polls showed a simple majority of the public supports a single-payer system in the United States.[16] These polls are from sources such as CNN,[51] AP-Yahoo,[52][53] Quinnipiac,[54] New York Times/CBS News Poll,[55][56][57] Washington Post/ABC News Poll,[58] Kaiser Family Foundation[59] and the Civil Society Institute.[6