Doubts About Whether Shutdowns Equal Savings
Rebecca Letz for The New York Times
St. Mary's Hospital in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is one of three hospitals being considered for closing.
Posted on 04/10/2005 11:09:03 PM PDT by neverdem
Doubts About Whether Shutdowns Equal Savings
Rebecca Letz for The New York Times
St. Mary's Hospital in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is one of three hospitals being considered for closing.
We have a big problem paying the medical bills for the millions of illegal aliens here. Our Governor doesn't seem concerned at all, but we are.
We have plenty of illegals here in NY, but it sounds dumb to close down hospitals in big cities, especially ones that have already been targeted by Al Qaeda. Talk about writing stories in a vacuum. I guess this author was the same guy who hired Jayson Blair, Howell Raines, IIRC.
ILLEGALS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY and ambulance chasing lawyers are major factors in hospitals closing and doctors leaving. Someone has to pay the bills. I keep hearing how ILLEGALS contribute more to the economy and cheap goods but they seem to forget about the healthcare costs, education, etc. that taxpayers are forced to pay. The employers of ILLEGALS should be forced to provide benefits for them. See how fast they find LEGALS to work for them.
I guess this author was hired by the same guy who hired Jayson Blair, Howell Raines, IIRC.
I thought Hillary was going to fix everything. I guess she lied AGAIN, miracle worker and smartest woman on the face of the earth that she is. /sarcasm
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
"Twelve New York hospitals have closed in the last 27 months.."
And hundreds more across the country will continue to close down as hordes upon hordes of 3rd world aliens continues the invasion of our country. Today is hospitals, tomorrow will be which institutions?
This may sound dumb, but not meant to be atagonistc, but how do you propose to keep these places open "just in case" if they are not making a profit? Is this not like any other business or industry that doesn't profit from the goods it sells to the public -- and their ability to pay for those goods?
Nationally, hospitals have become more efficient in the past few years, due to less invasive surgical techniques, shorter required stays, and more out-patient surgery. Seems like New York City ought to reap the savings that others are achieving.
To help ease the pain they can sell the expensive real estate to someone who can make better use of it.
What's your recommendation for casualty rich targets as far as WMD, terrorism and necessary medical care? To hell with them, it's New York City, Washington D.C. or some other big city? That's mighty white of you. I guess we need to worry about attacks on Bumfuk in the middle of nowhere.
The free market has a way of bringing these things into balance.
How does the free market deal with mass casualties after the fact besides activating units from overstretched reserve units of the Armed Forces?
"How does the free market deal with mass casualties after the fact besides activating units from overstretched reserve units of the Armed Forces?"
If a WMD hits New York or D.C., folks will be evacuated to more rural areas that you so lovingly refer to in a previous post. There are already plans in place to do exactly that, in a worst-case scenario.
Do you really think more hospitals in an area likely to be hit by a WMD attack would make a difference when everybody leaves those areas?
Closing these hospitals will have little, if any, effect on a WMD response, should one be required.
Hillary!Care would have shut down far more, quicker, and included teaching hospitals. When elected, she flip flopped and became a champion of the NY State hospital system and nurses' unions.
For the campaign contributions.
And we wait again for Hillary to blame Republicans in the state for implementing part of her cost management strategy from Hillary!Care, "costing New Yorker's jobs, medical care and protections against future terrorist attacks." Expect the regular Charles the Schmuck newsconference on the subject.
And labor leaders?? That's a switch. Usually "labor leaders" don't give a rat's pa-tooie over the fate of managment.
Between indigent care costs, HMO's squeezing the hospitals, and the lawyers/malpractice insurance disaster, there isn't enough money to go round. Those factions with their hands in the trough, Trial lawyers, Medical personnel unions, Employers of illegals, Insurance companies who must respond to malpractice lawsuits, need to be brought down a notch, for the situation to improve.
On your premise that there should be excess hospital space, then it's a classic tragedy of the commons.
IIRC, the name used in that reference was used by a First Sergeant O'Donnell of Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division, at least when I heard it in 1981. I believe he was in the Army Special Forces in Vietnam.
"the name used in that reference was used by a First Sergeant O'Donnell of Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division, at least when I heard it in 1981. I believe he was in the Army Special Forces in Vietnam."
Clearly Sgt O'Donnell did not demand enough push-ups from you to modify your attitude.
What's your proposal for another attack on NYC? It's not likely that you will be attacked unless you're in that location. I'm all ears.
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