“Five U.S. cities deemed at greatest risk of attack and two cities that will host this summer’s national political conventions said they had no emergency room treatment space available to accept severely injured patients,” sparking fears that hospitals would be “overwhelmed if any of the cities were struck by a terrorist attack on the scale of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid,” says the report. For the complete story, go here.
In the News: Democrats Warn About Hospital Capacity
House Democrats say hospitals in major U.S cities face severe “shortages of emergency room capacity and intensive care beds … if Bush administration Medicaid changes are implemented, the Washington Post reports.
