Holy. Fucking. God.

Kevin Drum tells us about a particularly terrifying story about our disaster of a health care system.

I don't have the complete information here (neither does the woman who got all of her limbs amputated), but it certainly seems that the hospital is simply protecting itself from certain liability here. Unless she came in with the flesh-eating bacteria, it infected her, took her limbs, and is refusing to even tell her this. Cases like this are why I think that tort reform is bullshit--if you want to punish frivilous lawyers, fine, but don't tilt the system against people like this.

And penalize the fuck out of the hospital if this poor woman actually ends up having to sue to find out why she can no longer walk or pick up anything.