"I can’t help but wonder if these people ever took a loved one, as I once did - the sweetest lady I ever met, to the emergency room after breaking her hip, and watched her in agony, tied to a stretcher in a dark and noisy hallway all night, waiting for overworked staff to free up a bed. I can’t help but wonder if they’ve called for an ambulance only to get an answering machine," writes Brandon Kirby in this week's Freedom Philosophy.