Oh come on. No amount of money is going to magically avoid stupid incidents like this. That guard should be prosecuted. It's not a funding issue, comrade.

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"I should be calling collect from jail for the things I commit each night in my head" - D. Mustaine.

This private hospital, with its minimum wage security guard was at fault. If it was a government run facility, there would have been 2 over paid security guards (because us Dems love big government, ha) and because they are paid more, they would be more motivated to help people (by super dude’s logic) and therefore... she might have lived. But, because the CEO of this hospital believes in saving money for himself, and undercutting the pay for the staff.. No one helped her.

...and your waiting list comment has nothing to do with it, because she wasn’t in the "mental" health hospital for blood clots (one would think). So, she wouldn’t be on a waiting list. That was simply a pot shot at Socialized Medicine, which is why not one quoted you.

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Maybe the woman should have been taken care of =O?

If you had read the artical before replying you would have seen:

"...In fact, the hospital's psychiatric unit, also known as the G Building, was notorious for being both overcrowded and indifferent to its patients. A lawsuit filed in 2007 by the New York Civil Liberties Union charged staff members with beating and handcuffing patients and injecting them with psychoactive drugs when they complained. And the Commission for Quality of Care, a state agency, found that instead of trying to locate available psychiatric beds at other area hospitals when the facility reached capacity—as required by state law—G Building employees had falsified documents to hide a persistent overcrowding problem..."

Hate to break it to you, but it was a Managment/greed s.o.b. "issue".

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How would it be any different if the health care was publicly funded?

Isn't there greed, poor management, and corruption in government agencies?

If they were so greedy, then why were they building a new building to make more space?

"Hospital leaders insisted that the facility's troubles stemmed from space constraints, not staffing issues, and promised that a new building still under construction would help alleviate that problem. In an e-mail to NEWSWEEK, the embattled hospital says it has made "significant reforms" since then, and promises more changes are coming. But any such improvements will come too late for Green. Nearly 40 minutes after she stopped moving, a nurse walked over and lightly kicked her. By then, she was already dead. Last week the city's medical examiner cited blood clots in her legs as the official cause."

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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

--Murray Rothbard

You mean like the overpaid TSA security agents?

You live in a peachy little world, don't you?

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Still supporting the worst franchise in baseball!!
(keep the conservative sinking ship jokes)

"Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage."
-Ron Paul, about his freedom campaign.

http://www.politicalforum.com/humor-...johns-ftw.html

You did make me LOL though, so don't feel too bad.

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Still supporting the worst franchise in baseball!!
(keep the conservative sinking ship jokes)

"Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage."
-Ron Paul, about his freedom campaign.

http://www.politicalforum.com/humor-...johns-ftw.html

I have yet to hear any politician propose a socialized healthcare system. Have you? If so, please provide a link.