The American Prospect
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There were no beds available in the patient rooms, so “admitted” patients were being stashed in beds laid end-to-end in the emergency area of the emergency room at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston .
This mess is a vivid example of how reliance on commercialized health care with piecemeal regulation has failed and backfired.
The system is now so bad that its structural failures affect even the most privileged among us.
When a hospitalized patient can't safely go home, three options are short of staff, largely because of profiteering and inadequate pay.
David Gergen : The shortage of post-hospital facilities and backup effect on acute-care hospitals can be fixed only in the context of a universal system.
Gergen says the system is so bad its structural failures affect even the most privileged among us.
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