The Decline of Emergency Care

[djean111]

1. Money. And the American credo that one does not deserve health care in any way, shape, or form -

unless the media is watching, or the care is needed because it involved some sort of extraordinary event - bombing, earthquake, etc.
Everyone came together for the Boston victims, but day-to-day shootings, sick and injured children, etc. - those people have to somehow make it to an open emergency room; the emergency room does not spring into action for them.
Profit is the answer. In a totally Capitalistic society, profit is always the answer.
And the idea that treating people now will make costs down the road go down? File that with the fact that jobless and minimally-waged people will stop buying goods and services. Unregulated Capitalism only looks to the next quarter, unless it wants the Social Security money, for example - then it pretends to care about the future.