Honestly Bells, spare us the crocodile tears. There is alot you dont see in your ivory towers - Oz, this was in South Central, LA. I have been in emergency rooms in low income neioghborhoods and can tell you it is as rough as it gets, people handcuffed to stretchers, gunshot wounds, stabbings, people running all over the place etc...vomitting, blood and guts.
Take this quote from your post:
Rodriguez, a California native, was poor and uninsured. She reportedly had a history of narcotics use and lived with various relatives.
Many people like her die, their cases forgotten by everyone but friends and family.
"They don't die on camera," said Dr. Felix Nuñez, medical director of the South Central Family Health Center in Los Angeles. "It's usually poor people dying on skid row, and they're just carted away. We don't hear and see anything about them."
She was a drug user who was probably treated there so many times that differentiating between her being really sick or just in a drug induced haze was very difficult. Have you personally seen what an addict looks like after years of abuse or after just taking a nice hit of heroin? They allways have one foot on the bannana peel.
You love to bash U.S and gloat too often to let this just pass without commenting. I honestly dont think either you or the OP give a damn about this woman and if you saw her lying in a gutter on the street you would walk around her yourself. Well let me give you a dose of reality, SOME people LIKE TO GET HIGH, they like living like gangsters, they like to rob and steal and nothing can change them...NOTHING...but death or prison. You can give them anything and everything but once it has you there is nothing that will replace that drug.
You want someone to blame Bells? blame the people supplying those poor addicted victims with drugs, blame the people sneaking the stuff into the U.S...but no you wont do that or just dont see it. So go ahead and enjoy yourself as if this is a commentary on the state of the U.S but you dont know it was actually much much worse at one time. She is dead...but she died a long time ago anyway.
And so the lawsuit will come and nothing will change, people will cry for her for a week or two, the lawyer will go on a nice vaction and these people will still be poor and victimized but in the end no one forcced them to use drugs and that is how many of them end up- DEAD.
yeah, yeah, yeah...it is America- we take in the people other countries throw away. Sometime it works and sometimes it dont.
Let me also remind you that we have some of the best hospitals and doctors in the world, we treat people from poor countries for free that often times would not have been done anywhere else.
You know tbh it looks like your jealous of this beautiful country.
