Archives for posts tagged ‘indifference’

Mental patient dies while in government custody

Another mental patient has died while in government care. The solution being touted, as usual, is more government oversight.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to ensure patients receive proper care.
An investigator’s report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one [...]

Indifferent government workers allow disabled girl to starve to death

Those of you excited about the idea of “free” health care would do well to remember that government programs tend to promote mediocrity and indifference, not hope and transcendence. Unless of course, you count death as transcendence.
PHILADELPHIA - Four social workers were among nine people charged Thursday in the death of a disabled 14-year-old girl [...]

Universal health care future: woman dies on waiting room floor

When America inevitably votes itself something called universal health care, it is my belief that we’ll see more stories like this one: Tape shows woman dying on waiting room floor
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour [...]