re: #31 JammieWearingFool

Now they’ll move on to destroying the medical industry with socialized medicine.

Oh, and if you try and make more money to pay all your taxes, Braney Frank will cap your salary.

Japan has a near socialist health care system. It’s failing.

Man dies in Japan after 14 hospitals reject him

TOKYO — A 69-year-old Japanese man injured in a traffic accident died after paramedics spent more than an hour negotiating with 14 hospitals before finding one to admit him, a fire department official said today.

The man, whose bicycle collided with a motorcycle in the western city of Itami, waited at the scene in an ambulance because the hospitals said they could not accept him, citing a lack of specialists, equipment, beds and staff, according to Mitsuhisa Ikemoto.

It was the latest in a string of recent cases in Japan in which patients were denied treatment, underscoring the country’s health care woes that include a shortage of doctors.