Visions of Universal Health Care Dance in their Heads

If the dems who want Universal Health Care (Hillary, for one) need some food for thought, try this one.

Japan has a Universal Health Care System.

This week in Japan, an 89 year old woman died after an ambulance spent several hours trying to find a hospital that would take her. The reasons ranged from “being full” to “having a shortage of doctors”

The woman had been vomiting and having diarrhea since the night before, and her family had finally called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.

By the time the ambulance crew found a hospital (30 hospitals denied her) that would take her, her heart had stopped. She was resuscitated temporarily, but died a short time later.

“The latest case underscores Japan's health-care woes, in part created by a shortage of doctors in the country's rapidly aging society. Critics say long working hours and a government policy change several years ago to keep the number of doctors down are to blame. Behind the recurrence of such problems in various parts of Japan is the chronic shortage of doctors, as well as the fact that regional networks among medical institutions are not functioning," Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe told a news conference Friday.”

Full story here.