U.S. Health Care System – “Boom!”

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Granted, this is an extreme example but it does highlight the fact that the greatest health care system in the world might not in fact be the greatest health care system in the world.

An unemployed Michigan woman who was unable to afford medical treatment for a searing pain in her shoulder took matters into her own hands last week, shooting herself in the shoulder in a last-ditch effort to get into the ER.

Kathy Myers, 41, said she was pushed to the brink of desperation Thursday night because she was “crazy in pain,” and the local hospital emergency room would give her no more than a handful of anti-inflammatory pills.

“Pain will make you do silly, crazy things,” the 41-year-old Niles, Mich., woman said in a YouTube.com interview with News 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “I knew they wasn’t going to do anything, again. They said if it wasn’t life-threatening, no health insurance, you can’t get no help.”

In the video, she reenacts how she covered her right shoulder and head with two pillows before pointing her .25-caliber handgun at her own body.

“I took the gun and went ‘Boom!’” she said.

Needless to say, an unemployed woman in Canada, France or Great Britain suffering from severe shoulder pain would never have to consider taking a gun to herself in a desperate attempt at receiving medical treatment.  Nor would people in those countries ever have the humiliating experience of receiving medical treatment while lying on a cot in a stall intended for livestock.

If you can afford it, I have no doubt the U.S. health care system is the greatest health care system in the world.  For everyone else…well, Boom!

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