Seattle psychiatric unit to close after $500M shortfall

Q13 Fox.com ^ | June 16, 2020 | Associated Press

[llevrok]

I think that 500 mil is just for administrative costs, not patients /sarc

[AndyJackson]

Just move it to CHAZ.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Big Gov accounting. We just need to spend more.

[Bikkuri]

The patients escaped and created CHAZ/CHOP...

[Starboard]

500 MILLION??? What.....the......hell?

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Bureaucracy is expensive.

[Bernard]

Call it what you want; fluff, overhead, feather-bedding, or any of several other names, there is a lot of spending happening in larger organizations that is not really essential.

In economic downturns, some of the non-essential spending gets reduced. How much in which department depends on who is doing the cutting.

This is also where the cost of regulations comes in. Is an entire department responsible for government reg compliance really essential in the real world, or essential because future reimbursement requires the reporting? Just the tangled web of Medicare billing costs a huge amount of money, and does it really add value or just perpetuate bad habots?

[Reily]

We’ve reached a point where Charles Manson makes sense

[rrrod]

Excellent.

[null and void]

I guess there just aren’t enough crazy people in Seattle to support a psychiatric unit...

[albie]

CHAZ will simply start up an autonomous crazy house! It’ll be right between the CHAZ CPA Accounting Services and CHAZ Children’s Hospital! Easy peazy!

[SmokingJoe]

Ship all the crazies to CHAZ/CHOP.
They’ll feel right at home. Everyone is nuts there.

[Rummyfan]

I’m confused. I thought the whole city was a psychiatric ward.

Yeah me too. Who can tell the difference between these patients and the residents of CHAZ?!