[proxy_user]

As a poster, you need to set context. The article does not clearly indicate what state, or even what country, we are talking about here.

You may live in Texas and know the Star-Telegram is the Fort Worth paper, but FR has a worldwide readership, and 90% will have no clue.

[figgers3036]

I know the solution! Nationalize it! QUICK! Throw more money at it!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I spent 7 years at Parkland in Dallas, arguably the sister institution to JPS. Some of this existed way back then (80’s) but I honestly don’t think Parkland was as bad as all this when I was there. However it is true that if the culture of a place is a certain way, lack of equipment, lack of staff, poor attitude, a lower social strata of patients, you do get into a certain vicious cycle - I can certainly see how that could happen.

[sionnsar]

Alabama?

[kcm.org]

JPS is a cluster foxtrot—but they saved my backside so can’t gripe here.

[goldstategop]

A hospital awash in cash but it can't take the time to look after its patients? I know for sure I wouldn't to be treated there. Its not just professional proficiency I want from my doctor.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[clee1]

Disgraceful! This place should be closed and its administrators brought up on charges!

[SlapHappyPappy]

Yet, at the same time, I have seen how people who make up the prospective client base of JPS go untreated not because of the system, but because they are too lazy to even try.

I know one person who would rather let his epilepsy kill him than sit in a waiting room.

[theymakemesick]

In the past six years, Tarrant County property taxpayers have anted up $1.3 billion on the premise that the mission of the public hospital is to treat the indigent and needy. But a four-month Star-Telegram examination found that the Hospital District has squandered opportunities to improve care and compassion as it has chased insured patients pursued by every other Tarrant hospital.

As trash cans overflowed, so did the district's bank accounts. The district's investments swelled to $381 million last year, earning $22 million in interest. But nurses scrambled during surgeries for instruments that low-paid assistants couldn't identify.

Yep, just as I thought, socalised healthcare. I can't wait for hillarycare /s