• This Is an Opinionated Paper on Health Care

     

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Published: 23.09.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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Choosing People or Profits?
In Alameda County California, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because the hospital's computer showed that she didn't have insurance. Hours later, her baby was born dead in a county hospital, because the woman was sent to a county hospital and it was too late to save the unborn child.
In San Bernardino California, a trauma surgeon sent a patient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county medical center after examining him and declaring his condition stable. The patient arrived at the county medical center dying.…

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