I signed up to/. just to reply to this. Whatever you think the answers are the libel that people just get sent home to die in this country isn't in my experience.
I have a niece who is 20, diabetic and comes from what I would call a wildly disfunctional family. The whole lot of them aren't worth pocket lint. This last May she came down with a case of bacterial pneumonia that the doctors said would have killed anybody much older than herself. She spent 4 months in Cardio-Intensive Care receiving experimental antibiotics at 10k a dose at the best hospital in the area at a cost I can only guess at but I'm sure some of you who know those costs can do the math. There is no chance she will in her entire life pay back even a fraction of the cost and she continues receiving rehabilitation treatments at no cost to herself. She has mostly recovered and has now become pregnant and I'll bet she'll be treated much the same. The people of my economically depressed state of Michigan is picking up all of this through Medicaid so IMO that cruel, profit driven America I hear about on/. constantly is more dorm bull session Marxism than any reflection of reality.
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I signed up to /. just to reply to this. Whatever you think the answers are the libel that people just get sent home to die in this country isn't in my experience.
I have a niece who is 20, diabetic and comes from what I would call a wildly disfunctional family. The whole lot of them aren't worth pocket lint. This last May she came down with a case of bacterial pneumonia that the doctors said would have killed anybody much older than herself. She spent 4 months in Cardio-Intensive Care receiving experimental antibiotics at 10k a dose at the best hospital in the area at a cost I can only guess at but I'm sure some of you who know those costs can do the math. There is no chance she will in her entire life pay back even a fraction of the cost and she continues receiving rehabilitation treatments at no cost to herself. She has mostly recovered and has now become pregnant and I'll bet she'll be treated much the same. The people of my economically depressed state of Michigan is picking up all of this through Medicaid so IMO that cruel, profit driven America I hear about on /. constantly is more dorm bull session Marxism than any reflection of reality.