Something needs to be done. We had an excellent regional hospital in my county that was suddenly and inexplicably closed about 2 years ago. Now the nearest hospital is 40 minutes away. If you have a serious accident or other life threatening and sudden event, syonara sucker if you live around here.
> Something needs to be done. We had an excellent regional hospital
One thing we need to do is accept that Bill Gates and Hillary and Obama will get better care than much of the population. It would be great if was possible for everyone to get top care, but the fact is that your old regional hospital can’t compete on quality of care with the one Obama uses.
But the Dems insist that everyone deserves the same care so they put hospitals out of business rather than letting them provide lower quality care. And the lower quality facility will usually be for unimportant things like stitches while they can diagnose someone who needs a more up-to-date facility and staff and send them to another hospital.
Letting a nurse run a clinic in a town with no doctor would be far better than requiring a 40 minute drive just to get an evaluation. But regulations put the town doctor out of business, and it’s not cost-effective for the emergency clinics to set up in the town with a doctor and all the regulations. The Dems pushing rules don’t understand because they’re always within a few minutes of an emergency clinic and usually a major, modern hospital. And the AMA doesn’t want to allow a nurse to do things without a doctor supervision even though the nurse is more than qualified/competent.
No helicopter service for you folks?
Something needs to be done. We had an excellent regional hospital in my county that was suddenly and inexplicably closed about 2 years ago. Now the nearest hospital is 40 minutes away. If you have a serious accident or other life threatening and sudden event, syonara sucker if you live around here.
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Hospital beds, like the interstate highways were built to prepare for war and emergencies. Cold war and WWII mindsets. The highways were seen a being easily converted into landing strips if need be.
Hospitals up to the eighties had extra beds to cope with possible mass causalities.
Now that there is no interest in civil defense, the hospitals became victims of the beancounters called the Healthcare Finance Commissions, which has to approve every bed and every piece of equipment hospitals purchase.
The bigger hospital chains and organizations are wiping out little stand alones just like hospital practices and large medical practices have wiped out the independent practitioner.
There is no way the regionals can return unless the government is totally out of hospital care, except to provide charity hospitals for the indigent .