Associated Press – August 7, 2007:
U.S. hospitals are increasingly shutting down their burn centers in a trend experts say could leave the nation unable to handle widespread burn casualties from a fiery terrorist attack or other major disaster.
Experts say burn centers are expensive to maintain and often lose money because they are staffed with highly specialized surgeons and nurses and stocked with sophisticated equipment designed to ease patients’ excruciating pain, fend off deadly complications and promote healing.
The number of burn centers in the U.S. has dropped from 132 in 2004 to 127, and burn beds have fallen from 1,897 to 1,820, according to American Burn Association records compiled from voluntary reporting by hospitals.
“People ought to be pretty frightened by this,” said Dr. Barbara Latenser, burn center director at the University of Iowa Hospitals. “Some people who live out West, they are 800 miles from a burn center.”
#20, joshua,
I continually post links showing you are wrong. You, in turn, very seldom ever post a link backing up your point. But the truly galling nerve is when you suggest “if we could calm him down on politics all would be well with the world. after you made several “truth be damned” political comments in #18.
In short, the Canadian healthcare system is not perfect yet, it is a damn sight better then what is available in the US. Your ideological driven asinine comments not withstanding.
HINT:, they are not zealots if you follow in their shadows.
The funny part is that Fusion’s right on the point that there aren’t too many Canadians coming down here for treatment, but he’s too ignorant to prove it.
Unfortunately, Fusion’s point that their system is better than ours is only true for the poor. Those with jobs in America have access to a better, and more timely, system than those with jobs in Canada.
Not saying it’s right, just saying what it is.