Feel the Bern: -How to get rid of medical care, Socialist Venezuela shows the way

April 1, 2018 By Monica Showalter
 

Socialism, so vaunted for all its "free health care" is leading the way for the elimination of all medical care, in Venezuela.

Seems that treating gang members is a life-threatening proposition for doctors in the country's public hospitals. Cure the gangbanger of whatever bullet or knife wounds he gets out on the streets, and you live. Lose such a patient, as you work in a hospital without bandages or medical supplies, and the gang members kill you. The Miami Herald reports:

"Junior Rodríguez is used to seeing death and violence up close because he's a doctor in a public hospital in Venezuela, one of the world's most dangerous countries." 

"But the violence has been turning more personal for Rodríguez and the rest of the medical staff at the "Dr. Luis Razetti de Barcelona University Hospital in the eastern state of Anzoátegui." 

"The staffers work under constant death threats made by relatives or friends of patients — some of them dangerous gang members — if the patients die."  

“Most of the time that's the doctor's worst fear, that the patient dies and the relatives take it out on him,” Rodriguez said in a telephone interview.  "The threat of harm if the patient dies is always there. We don't have any kind of protection. You treat a person who turns out to be a criminal, and if that person decides to point a gun at you, there's nothing you can do.”

Nobody can work in those conditions.  This is the absolute end of medical care in Venezuela. There just won't be any if trying to treat a patient amounts to a death sentence for the doctor. So will the last Venezuelan doctor kindly turn out the light? Well, no - there's no electricity, either........Read more