[neverdem]

Has anyone told the SEIU?

[endthematrix]

Hospitals Worried By Report

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=39289

[goldstategop]

If Spitzer REALLY cuts spending, I will be surprised. Liberals don't cut spending. And I like what I hear about cutting New York's property taxes. But we'll see.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[mo]

yeah..a real "forward thinker" ..."preparing to govern"...next we'll be hearing about all his "growth"

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/02/controlling_health_care_costs_by_controlling_access/

[Jim Noble]

Would closing car dealerships cut the price of cars? Would closing supermarkets cut the price of groceries?

People get what they deserve, and the American people richly deserve the coming collapse of the hospital system. So much concentrated economic illiteracy has never been seen in the world as is now on display in Federal and state "health care" policy.

[Solamente]

[raybbr]

Does Pataki hurt babies? Ads say so ---

As she talks, words materialize ominously on the screen: "Governor Pataki's budget cuts mean hospitals across New York will close."

Four years later, 1199 and the Greater New York Hospital Association are portraying Pataki as Ebenezer Scrooge, pinching shillings by shutting off Tiny Tim's incubator.

Let's see if they attack Spitzer the way the did Pataki.

[Churchjack]

So, closing hospitals thereby reducing supply is gonna cut costs how?

[Brilliant]

Someone ought to teach this fool basic economics. You don't reduce costs by eliminating supply. You only drive up the price further.

[Born Conservative]

He wouldn't be the first Northeast Liberal Governor to do that. Fast Eddie Rendell is on a slash and burn campaign with Medicaid (although most of the cuts he is doing are reasonable, the manner in which he is doing it is inefficient), as well as cutting back state employee's health benefits.

I have an HMO by the same company that administers an HMO for state employees (PEBTF), yet PEBTF will not pay for several vaccines (Prevnar, Influenza, Hep A, Rotavirus, Meningococcal), and parents are getting huge unexpected bills. I didn't get the connection to Rendell until I started seeing his campaign ads about balancing the budget for the past 3 years. Getting back to the vaccines, they are all covered under my plan. I would think that the costs saved even just by Prevnar would justify the cost of the vaccine: much fewer diagnostic workups for fever since implementing the vaccine, as well as the cost to hospitalize a child with pneumococcal meningitis or pneumonia.