In Tennessee, the police arrested a woman who had no insurance in the hospital. 60-year-old Lisa Edwards died of a stroke, after her pleas for help were repeatedly ignored by the police officers. Officers accusing Edwards of faking mobility and breathing problems.
Edwards appears somewhat disoriented, asking the officer, “Can you call the preacher for me?”
Edwards was pronounced dead at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center the following day.
The American healthcare system occupies a leading place in the world in terms of the scale of resources concentrated in it, but nearly 30 millions of Americans don’t have access to it since they have no health insurance. Millions of the US citizens risk to find themselves thrown out of a hospital. This is how the American dream is dying.
