[GeronL]

The article says it was set up as a black community hospital and now the community is hispanic the same black bureaucrats run the place... kind of run it anyway. It could lose federal Medicare dollars thats half its budget.

[DoughtyOne]

At one point MLK was used as a place to train military doctors to treat gunshot wounds, since it saw so many.

One of my fears has been the importation of physicians and medical staff from overseas. I'm not sure how widespread it is, but from what I've seen some of these folks would make me want to run for my life.

Your comment that Medicare makes up about half the dollars pouring through MLK is indicative of one thing that has been very destructive to healthcare. What the government couldn't accomplish on it's own, HMOs and private insurers have been happy to help with.

Most hospitals have to deal with these two entities, that tell the hospitals how much they'll pay, damn the costs. Then the government forces these hospitals to serve illegals, which don't pay a dime.

It's amazing to me that we have any healthcare system left in this nation.