Ten years on the hospital is still closed, New Orleans still hasn't been rebuilt, and there still isn't a health care system in America that covers everyone. So much for being a "wealthy" or "first world" country when it can just abandon a major area like this.
it not only closed it replaced at a other location! is the hospital really that damaged during the storm? could they not just closeoff the lower parts where it was flooded and move a temp first floor a floor up? make a airbridge for the patients that are in health danger and then let the flood go away! and rebuild the lower floors ..
Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously said, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and most inhumane." Regardless of age, socioeconomic status, religion, cultural background, or race, we all must face the fears of illness, aging, and death. Guaranteed universal healthcare for everyone in America is the only compassionate solution! May we find forgiveness in our hearts for the ignorant, fear-based, all-out RACIST comments made below?
Send this to Barack Obama. We must put an end to our current multi-insurer mess. Enact HR 676. Give us a humane, equitable single payer health care system--taxpayer funded, with choice of doctor and hospital. No person a charity case, no hospital a charity hospital. In the event of another Katrina, or an epidemic, everyone would have access to care in nearby towns. I call on physicians nationwide to join PNHP today. Stand with your colleagues from New Orleans, and with the CA nurses.
Hey--thanks for that clarification. But was it the hospital that served most indigents? Where do the uninsured go now? I'd like to check into hospitals founded by the Daughters of Charity n other countries--countries that have implemented single payer. Come to think of it, I'm waiting for our US Catholic bishops to endorse single payer. Where is St. Vincent de Paul when we need him? Yours for health care justice.
2nd largest hospital in the country with just the basement damaged in Katrina and it remains closed? It's just so bad, like at least try to cover up the fact that you don't give a shit. Making it this obvious is like spitting in the people's faces. This is unreal I'm ashamed to be American at times like that ... and it KILLS to say that, but it's true.
This is a very powerful and moving video.
Thanks for doing this. I didn't know this was the fate of Charity.
Ten years on the hospital is still closed, New Orleans still hasn't been rebuilt, and there still isn't a health care system in America that covers everyone. So much for being a "wealthy" or "first world" country when it can just abandon a major area like this.
This is horribly sad and disgraceful.....why has this not been rectified? Why doesn't the news report this kind of stuff?
OMG this is horrible. Why is Charity Hospital still idle? This is absolutely sinful.
it not only closed it replaced at a other location! is the hospital really that damaged during the storm? could they not just closeoff the lower parts where it was flooded and move a temp first floor a floor up? make a airbridge for the patients that are in health danger and then let the flood go away! and rebuild the lower floors ..
Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously said, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and most inhumane."
Regardless of age, socioeconomic status, religion, cultural background, or race, we all must face the fears of illness, aging, and death. Guaranteed universal healthcare for everyone in America is the only compassionate solution!
May we find forgiveness in our hearts for the ignorant, fear-based, all-out RACIST comments made below?
Send this to Barack Obama.
We must put an end to our current multi-insurer mess. Enact HR 676. Give us a humane, equitable single payer health care system--taxpayer funded, with choice of doctor and hospital. No person a charity case, no hospital a charity hospital.
In the event of another Katrina, or an epidemic, everyone would have access to care in nearby towns. I call on physicians nationwide to join PNHP today. Stand with your colleagues from New Orleans, and with the CA nurses.
Hey--thanks for that clarification. But was it the hospital that served most indigents? Where do the uninsured go now? I'd like to check into hospitals founded by the Daughters of Charity n other countries--countries that have implemented single payer. Come to think of it, I'm waiting for our US Catholic bishops to endorse single payer. Where is St. Vincent de Paul when we need him?
Yours for health care justice.
2nd largest hospital in the country with just the basement damaged in Katrina and it remains closed? It's just so bad, like at least try to cover up the fact that you don't give a shit. Making it this obvious is like spitting in the people's faces. This is unreal I'm ashamed to be American at times like that ... and it KILLS to say that, but it's true.