My visit to the ER yesterday

[truedelphi]

33. I hear you and I feel your frustration and anger.

And I am speaking as someone who lost their life savings, retirement et al to the"Medical System" in this country.

But what happened here is extraordinary, that your family was pro-active about this pain. A lot of people wait out the dental pain. My husband was a social worker for a large County here in California. One of his friends at the agency's practice had a client who was in a lot of dental pain. Her insurance was to kick in in a week. The client wanted to wait it out, and although she was mildly admonished to get help sooner than that, she went home, took some Tylenol and went to sleep.

The infection that was causing her pain took over her body, and probably traveled to her brain. She never woke up. This woman left behind her husband, the love of her life, and two young kids.

The emotions ran pretty high at that agency over the next few weeks. What a loss of life! All because someone was doing what they thought was the right thing economically. And why should the greatest nation in the world force its citizens to even think this way!