Sunday, March 13, 2011

Call an Ambulance for Political Correctness

" In the old days, when an ambulance arrived at your door, the first thing the EMT would ask would be something like: “Where does it hurt?” or “What are the symptoms?”
But we live in a Politically Correct world now, and so the Mass. Department of Public Health has issued a new directive, “Guidance on the Collection of Race and Ethnicity by Ambulance Services.”
In this document, the first question to the sick person is not: “Do you want to go to the hospital?” The first question is: “Are you Hispanic/Latino/Spanish?”
My curiosity piqued, I found the new EMT directive on the Massachusetts state website. It’s indeed as silly as it sounds.

If you’re in Massachusetts and experience a medical problem and have to call an ambulance, here’s a hypothetical scenario that may someday await you…"
[Michelle Malkin]

and OBAMACARE will improve this?

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