The inevitable collapse of socialized healthcare in Israel is now taking the country by a storm. If you check the link you can see patients lined up in beds sitting in the hallways. Every empty space has an extra bed crammed in it, to fill the overflowing hospitals. Waiting times are unbearable, even for true emergencies in the ER. Some hospitals are actually no longer receiving new patients, because their rooms, walkways, and every spare spot are full of patients and they don't want to sit them out on the sidewalk outside the hospital.
It is fascinating how socialized healthcare fails miserably in every country that ever attempts it, it fails miserably in the 3 USA states that try it, and yet people still wish to pursue it.
The article is from one of israel's main newspapers. here is a google english translation link:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/29/ART2/067/020.html&sl=auto&tl=en
EDIT: please note that "brazil" is the name of hospital in the photograph.