I don't know what I find most shocking in this news story about Canadian hospitals.Is it the tragedy of Thelma Lee, the 41-year-old woman who died after crying out in the emergency room "I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe" for an hour and a half -- without being attended to.
Or is it the fact that Ontario is the only Canadian province to bother with setting minimal times to wait in emergency rooms -- and the target they've set (wait for it) is 8 hours!
Or is it that the real-life situation involves people actually waiting for 23 hours to be treated!
The core problem? The scandalous waste of resources on bureaucracy instead of direct patient care.
Can someone say, ObamaCare?
