Poor Glenn Beck had a bad hospital experience and claims the entire system is broken. All it takes to fix the problem, he says, is for the health care system to hire people who care about people then they will be the luckiest people in the world. Damn. We're channeling Babs Striesand. Where were we? Oh, yeah. It will take more than new hires to fix the U.S. health care system. How about taking the profit motive out of health care? How about reining in Big Pharma? How about letting doctors make decisions for their own patients? Oh, and Mr. Beck, if people at the hospital where you presented yourself were less than tolerant of you, do you think they may have recognized who you are. Maybe they were just giving you some of the love you pass out on your hate-filled program.

He said he and his wife were made to feel less than human when he came to the hospital's emergency room in intense pain (Beck isn't naming the hospital). As his wife struggled to carry him, a triage nurse "was actually drumming his fingers on the door and sighing, like `come on,'" he told The Associated Press. "He never made eye contact with me during the whole thing. He never talked about pain. He left my wife and I in the dust."

It took more than two hours to get any medication for pain "and it wasn't a busy night at all," he said.

Then there was the nurse who casually dismissed his request for oxygen, and a shower stall littered with old bandages. Several people treated him with compassion, but enough didn't that Beck believes there's a wider problem there.

"There was a woman who served meals to me every day, for five days," he said. "She would joke with me and talk. She made my stay more tolerable because she treated me like a human being ... She looked me in the eye. That's what has to be changed about health care. We have to stop looking at medicine as just a science and put the people back into it."