{"id":241293,"date":"2023-03-08T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=241293"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:23:29","slug":"cant-pay-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/cant-pay-dont-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t pay? Don&#8217;t care!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23,003 people died during 2022 after spending at least 12 hours in an A&#038;E waiting for care or to be admitted to a bed, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/feb\/28\/one-patient-dies-every-23-minutes-in-england-after-long-delay-in-ae\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a><\/em>, 28 Feb).<\/p>\n<p>That equates to roughly one every 23 minutes, 63 every day, 442 a week or 1,917 each month.<\/p>\n<p>The College said its findings, while \u2018shocking\u2019, were \u2018unsurprising\u2019 as it reflected the fact that emergency departments are often overwhelmed and unable to find patients a bed in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Just another grim reflection of capitalism&#8217;s priorities: profits for the rich, but don&#8217;t go to too much trouble to keep the poor alive. There&#8217;s plenty more where you came from, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-241293","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/241293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}