Some of these barriers to their treatment are access to proper finances, physicians, and transportation (Elders 813). These are issues that are already present within our health care system and with the introduction of private health care these issues would be heightened. The United States can be used as an example of how patients who are in need of care are often left to fend for themselves, for a variety of reasons. Ted Weiss told one chilling example of this at a Congressional hearing. He told the story of how a pregnant woman was refused help in a private Californian hospital. She waited at the hospital in labour for an extended period of time, before she was transferred to a public hospital. By this time, it was too late and her baby was born dead. This is a common occurrence within a private health care system. Private hospitals do not want to provide care for which they will not be reimbursed. Often, this leads to people being left stranded and without proper care (Brider 1448-1449). In the article, Too Poor to Pay: The Scandal of Patient Dumping, it is discussed many times how patients are being left or transferred to other hospitals after it is discovered that they do not have insurance or enough money to pay for the procedure. The article describes the patients that hospitals turn away as “dump patients” (Brider 1448-1449). This is occurring in the United States and has been since this article was written in 1987. This shows that a private system will always behave in the same way no matter the time
Some of these barriers to their treatment are access to proper finances, physicians, and transportation (Elders 813). These are issues that are already present within our health care system and with the introduction of private health care these issues would be heightened. The United States can be used as an example of how patients who are in need of care are often left to fend for themselves, for a variety of reasons. Ted Weiss told one chilling example of this at a Congressional hearing. He told the story of how a pregnant woman was refused help in a private Californian hospital. She waited at the hospital in labour for an extended period of time, before she was transferred to a public hospital. By this time, it was too late and her baby was born dead. This is a common occurrence within a private health care system. Private hospitals do not want to provide care for which they will not be reimbursed. Often, this leads to people being left stranded and without proper care (Brider 1448-1449). In the article, Too Poor to Pay: The Scandal of Patient Dumping, it is discussed many times how patients are being left or transferred to other hospitals after it is discovered that they do not have insurance or enough money to pay for the procedure. The article describes the patients that hospitals turn away as “dump patients” (Brider 1448-1449). This is occurring in the United States and has been since this article was written in 1987. This shows that a private system will always behave in the same way no matter the time