You know Italy has the same socialized medicine that Democrats say we need in this country. We have been told time and time again how great it is. hat’s like the difference between an optimist and pessimist. An optimist is someone who thinks married life is wonderful. A pessimist is an optimist who got married. Imagine all those Italians who thought they had a great medical system when they find out that once you turn 60, you are no longer eligible for a ventilator.
But they aren’t sending you home to die. You can hang out in the waiting room and succumb just like those who can’t live as long as the waiting line is. What’s a few extra bodies. One of the big problems with socialized medicine is that it doesn’t produce the revenue needed for machinery and as such there is a drastic shortage of C-Scans, MRI machines, X-rays and ventilators. So starting last week if you are 60 or older, you cannot get a ventilator.
An alarming report from the Jerusalem Post describes how doctors in Corona-torn Italy have been instructed not to offer access to ventilators to patients over 60 as these machines are in short supply.
Israeli doctor Gai Peleg, working in Parma, Italy, said that things “are only getting worse as the number of patients keeps growing.”
Dr. Peleg says from what he sees and hears in the hospital, the instructions are “not to offer access to artificial respiratory machines to patients over 60 as such machines are limited in number.”
President Trump acknowledged the possibility of a ventilator shortage during a press conference in the Rose Garden on Friday and said his advisers have are attempting to address it.
“We’re in the process, and in some cases have already done it, ordered a large number of respirators just in case,” Trump said. “We hope we don’t need them but we’ve ordered a large number.”
In New York, the current epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak in the United States, Gov. Cuomo has ordered every local health department across the state to contribute unused respirators as the Empire State desperately tries to prepare for a wave of critically ill coronavirus patients.
“It’s ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. That is the greatest need,” Cuomo told reporters at the state Capitol.