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” Hospitals increasingly declare themselves on ‘red alert’, which means they have very few beds left-or ‘black alert’, when they have to shut their doors to new admissions and send patients elsewhere...”
A story from Japan a few years ago:
Injured Japanese Man Dies After 14 Hospitals Refuse to Admit Him
A 69-year-old Japanese man injured in a traffic accident died after paramedics spent more than an hour negotiating with 14 hospitals before finding one to admit him, a fire department official said Wednesday.
The man, whose bicycle collided with a motorcycle in the western city of Itami, waited at the scene in an ambulance because the hospitals said they could not accept him, citing a lack of specialists, equipment, beds and staff, according to Mitsuhisa Ikemoto.
It was the latest in a string of recent cases in Japan in which patients were denied treatment, underscoring the country’s health care woes that include a shortage of doctors.
The man, who suffered head and back injuries, initially showed stable vital signs, but his condition gradually deteriorated. He died from hemorrhagic shock about an hour and half after arriving at the hospital, Ikemoto said.
More here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487747,00.html
I agree, Obamacare is so FUBAR that it is doomed to collapse. We need to be in place to pick up the pieces after the deluge.