Injured man dies after rejection by 14 hospitals

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Originally Posted by ryguy

Doesnt Japan have the highest ratio of elderly people to young people in the population? Probably doesnt help the situation.

I could imagine that longer life expectancy would lead to more old people, and statistical fact is that old people require healthcare... Add that to the logjam that a deluge of old people who will not die creates in the population and *bam* you have the problem that this thread was started to discuss.
14 local hospitals and none had a bed for him? That is fucking crazy, I could get into an accident right outside my job and would only have a choice of 6 within a 75-mile radius, but would surely have a bed in ANY of them.

Originally Posted by MisawaJason

Join the military, best of both worlds haha

Tried when I was 17, I'd had asthma as a child, that was automatically disqualifying in 1996, didn't get a waiver. Now? I don't even WANT in, nor could I imagine why anyone would go in for anything other than job security.