Every Now and Then
Posted by Max Pilote on February 15, 2007
It’s rare that I stumble across a story in the news that plugs in the life support keeping my faith in humanity alive.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/shubert.hospital/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
According to this, the staff of this hospital hasn’t been paid fully in nearly a year, but they still keep their hospital running as best they could. In fact, the doctors that were getting paid higher than the other gave up some of their wages so the poorer staff members could get the money they needed to support themselves and their families.
I can’t imagine that hospital charges people a hell of a lot. If they do, they don’t expect to get any money back. After all, more than half of Palestinians live in poverty.
I suppose it takes a special breed of people to keep going under those conditions. I doubt you’ll find any hospital in the United States doing that. We just wish our doctors were that awesome. I mean, we have such advanced medical technology, but we pay out the ass for it.
That’s why I’m waiting for some sort of vaccine against my appendix exploding and my tonsils dying. I can’t get insurance, and I’m not paying them money to cut me, especially not that much money.
Hundreds, thousands of dollars to remove an organ that doesn’t even have a use anymore.
Thanks, Uncle Sam and Ronald Reagan, for making my health care impossible to obtain.
