The USA has the GREATEST Health Care System in the world!

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Joaquin Rivera Robbed While Dying In Emergency Room

Huffington Post/AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE
First Posted: 12- 1-09 06:50 PM | Updated: 12- 1-09 07:00 PM

PHILADELPHIA — A school counselor suffering an apparent heart attack died in a Philadelphia emergency room after waiting nearly 80 minutes for help – and a trio of homeless drug addicts nearby stole his watch instead of seeking aid, police said.

Joaquin Rivera, 63, died before seeing a triage nurse at Atria Health's Frankford Campus over the weekend, police said.

Rivera, a musician and activist in the city's Latino community, had spent more than 30 years working as a bilingual counselor at an inner-city high school.

"We're all destroyed. A guy like that, for him to leave us the way that he did – and with what happened to him – everybody's destroyed," said Jesse Bermudez, a friend and fellow musician.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/joaquin-rivera-robbed-whi_n_376116.html


With facts like these who can deny it?

[valerief]

1. Well, our wars kill more people than our healthcare delivery systems does.

That's a plus, isn't it?

[Thickasabrick]

2. Ya.....we got that going for us. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. I think you accidentally posted in the wrong thread nt

[valerief]

5. Point?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. Being helpful. You might have wanted to post that in the correct thread.

That one certainly wasn't it. You missed.

[valerief]

7. Clarification?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Always. Return to the earlier posts and read them more carefully nt

[valerief]

9. This was in the wrong thread, because ... ? I don't get what you don't get. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. LOL! So that's how you got on the wrong thread! Go rest up a bit nt

[valerief]

12. You think you're clever but you're just proving the opposite. Go beat up on more liberals. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. I never claimed to be clever. I just said you should rest up some nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. Uh.... no actually. You forget - I'm the one who's against attacks on liberals by

"supposed" liberals.

[StarfarerBill]

10. Good point.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Amazing, isn't it? nt

[jtrockville]

14. Uniquely American