Posted on 03/26/2020 2:21:39 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Ilhan Omar said she has a “radical idea” to combat the coronavirus: making all hospitals public during the pandemic.
“Here is maybe a radical idea to deal with some of the pressures our healthcare system is facing: All private hospitals should be made public for the duration of the virus,” the Minnesota Democrat tweeted Tuesday night.
Omar has previously called for "Medicare for all" and has given her support to self-described democratic socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
"Imagine if the progressives consolidated last night like the moderates consolidated, who would have won? That’s what we should be analyzing. I feel confident a united progressive movement would have allowed for us to #BuildTogether and win MN and other states we narrowly lost," Omar said, following Sanders’s Super Tuesday losses.
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You know, I was beginning to wonder about her and AOC and Rashida during all of this. So now they’ve all opened up their mouths and said their share of puerile, inane things and I know probably things are on their way back to normal.
I’ve got a radical idea. Throw her radical a s s in jail for high crimes and misd.
It’s not a radical idea.
“Private” hospitals, almost all of them, exist in a complex and poorly understood web of public money, public regulation, and private profit. What has happened to the “not-for-profit” sector since 1986 has transformed them from a quasi-public utility created so that doctors had a place to do their work into gigantic, complex profit-driven machines.
The problem we face (and which has been predicted for years) is that even a slight slowdown in the flow of public cash or a slight increase in care that the “insurance” industry doesn’t cover will close about 80% of hospitals. Push it out to a six month event, it’s more like 90%.
The “not-for-profit” model has led to annual cash stripping through expansion of bureaucracy, increase in executive compensation (doctors pay is strictly regulated, so unless they are also stockholders the $$ can’t go there), and investment in unneeded things.
So now. Hospitals need cash. They need tons and tons of it. Really. Stick ‘em up, taxpayer, or your hospital will die.
But after it’s over? Hospitals should return to the status of regulated public utilities or be nationalized outright, and let the cash river flow back into care for patients.
Here’s my radical idea: Deport Omar back to Somalia... today.
Illegal immigrant ftw.
OmarIdiot needs a ticket back to where she came from, just saying.
Color me 'not surprised' ....
That’s not a radical idea. It’s a sound rational,common sense idea.
What I meant was that your idea was not radical.
Omar, Talib and AOC, low IQ gum flapping attention seekers. This Coven of nitwits are clueless how widely they are despised. How sad that a DC address gets you a pass on criminal activity. Both Omar and AOC need serious investigations for Campaign / PAC money shenanigans.
I use a medical group that us robustly connected. I thought that was the current model of health care.
She is acknowledging that private hospitals are more efficient than public. In other words, government run is less competent.
So let’s turn everything into a mess without the “safety net” provided by private enterprise
I agree entirely with your assessment of the expansive bureaucracy in hospitals and medicine, and the profound contribution this has had to medical costs. Much of the bureaucratic growth was fueled by government policy, but it has been a cancer that keeps growing.
I personally think the best way to deal with this is to start with medicare and medicaid, and all public money that flows into hospitals, and make it mandatory that the use of public monies in hospital systems cannot finance more than 15% on the dollar administrative costs. US hospitals are upwards of 27-28% now. This will save hundreds of billions. Further, when hospital systems can no longer take public money and pay more than 15% on administration, the bureaucrats will begin to eat each other. Private insurance companies would undoubtedly follow suit.
She still walks the streets
When are we going to quarantine Congress?
I have a radical idea Omar. Why don’t you go back to your $hit hole Somalia and use your genius radical plans to bring that country out of the dark ages.
Omar’s an idiot, but for anyone curious about how many hospitals of which type...
https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
I hear ya.. though in these weird times, rational IS often radical.
Once again, the left’s ignorance of how business is done, and also the ignorance of how screwy medicare is!@
She’s not a genius, she’s an assh*le.
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