Hospitals Under the Knife : New York City System Aims to Cut 2,600 More Jobs as State Funding Drops

wsj ^ | MARCH 26, 2010 | MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL and SUZANNE SATALINE

[george76]

The nation's largest public hospital system plans to slash its work force—including doctors and nurses—by about 10% over two years as government aid drops and ...

No hospital system in the country is exempt from the crushing economics facing the health-care industry," said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

Officials in New York City have told hospital employees' unions that next year's goal of reducing staff by 2,600 ...

Also weighing on the hospital system's budget: employee pension costs, which have jumped from $50 million in 2004 to a projected $333 million in the upcoming fiscal year...

Across the country, public hospitals are cutting staff and services to deal with reductions in government aid and an increase in the number of patients who are uninsured or who are covered by Medicaid and Medicare, which pays less than the cost of services.

Lillian Roberts, executive director of District Council 37, the city's largest municipal employee union...

[Da Coyote]

Only the ill-educated Obamaloon crowd displays such a consistent display of complete economic stupidity.

Folks, we’re talkin’ stratospheric levels of dumb here.

[DonaldC]

“Across the country, public hospitals are cutting staff and services to deal with reductions in government aid and an increase in the number of patients who are uninsured or who are covered by Medicaid and Medicare, which pays less than the cost of services.”

The future is now.

[FrankR]

"No hospital system in the country is exempt from the crushing economics ^ of obamacare ^ facing the health-care industry," said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg... "

There, fixed it!

Of course, Bloomberg isn't going to say that...but it's too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

[silverleaf]

“or who are covered by Medicaid and Medicare, which pays less than the cost of services.”

so dumping (or forcing) another 30 million people into govt plans sounds like a good deal, right?

[gathersnomoss]

Zed Lepplin: “Goin’ north to Canada, with an achin’ in my heart”.

[concerned about politics]

No hospital system in the country is exempt from the crushing economics facing the health-care industry,"

Finishing the job his Muslim brothers failed to do on 9/11.

Obomanomics - Death to America?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Man, the health care there is going to get so much better with fewer employees! Can’t wait! /s

[Woebama]

How do medical expenses go up but doctors get laid off? Where does the money go?

[businessprofessor]

I am confident that part of the budget problems with NY public hospitals involves health care unions. Undoubtedly, health care unions have onerous work rules and escalating compensation demands. The crushing loss of tax revenues and runaway spending in NY combined with union inflated compensation and decreased efficiency will be a major blow to the hospitals and public served by the hospitals.

An unnoticed byproduct of Obamacare is the rise of health care unions. The major unions expect to unionize many health care providers. In addition, onerous price controls and government regulations will prompt physicians to form unions as protection from Democrats. A union dominated health care workforce is a sick health care system.

[george76]

To the government union employee pension costs, which have jumped from $50 million in 2004 to a projected $333 million in the upcoming fiscal year...

[george76]

The health care unions will add another layer of costs and new work rules for existing doctors...

Smart teenagers willing to work hard will think twice about a decade plus of medical school and student loans to then have to join a health care union, then work at the Post Office with DMV Obama beaurocrats as bosses.

[Son House]

01/10/09: President-Elect Obama’s Weekly Address

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDln2f0GvQ&feature=player_embedded

At 2 minutes;

Obama “Our plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs, Ninety percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector – the remaining 10 percent are mainly public sector jobs we save, like the teachers, police officers, firefighters and others who provide vital services in our communities.”

[hoosierham]

ONe of the things leading to higher expenses is the demand that all workers everywhere have degrees.You don't really need an engineering degree to change a tire or similar advanced study for many jobs that still need to be done .

I remember back when the hospitals severely reduced or eliminated the $7 an hour nurses' aide who did the routine comfort care of seeing that the patient was kept clean and comfortable only to find the $14 an hour practical licensed nurse "didn't go to school for 2 years to change bedpans,etc".So costs actually went up and care went down.

[BIGLOOK]

Smart teenagers willing to work hard will think twice about a decade plus of medical school and student loans to then have to join a health care union, then work at the Post Office with DMV Obama bureaucrats as bosses.

Funny you should put the Postal Service and the DMV together in this fiasco over what was once simply called Medicine. I'd went to the V.A. after separation, with an unresolved condition discovered during a Flight Physical while active. I got a letter several months later that the condition wasn't caused by flight duty or any other military activities. It was sent earlier to the wrong address.

My car registration renewal is often sent out to me, using an address fifteen years old and not my current address....all for getting another $5 or $10 for late filing...or a ticket for an expired tax tag. So......the two go together well, hand in greedy hand.

This combination will simplify the problem of expedient and efficient Health Care in the country.