[Mike Darancette]

I don't think this will be covered by an Obamacare Bronze Plan. Probably only for government and union boss piggys.

[ClearCase_guy]

I was just talking about this sort of thing with my wife. A lot of kids go off to college and live in fabulous dorms, and eat in sumptuous cafeterias with vast quantities of delicious food. And a lot of sick people spend time in very tastefully decorated luxury apartments which come complete with nurses and doctors.

Somehow, our society has decided that luxury is a base-level requirement. If it's not luxurious, then it isn't good enough for me.

And then we also complain that everything is so expensive.

I'd much rather live in a society that was less materialistic and less stressed, and more free. But I think we pissed all that away, didn't we?

[Patriot Babe]

Yep it would cover BamBam and the Wookie but not for us peons. We get the window view of a Brick wall, and a broken fire hydrant as our lovely waterfall. =)

[clee1]

Nothing new....

A nearby county-run hospital (see lots of indigent patients) has a whole unit that is like a luxury hotel; complete with personal chef/menu, fulltime one-on-one nurse, etc.

Of course, it costs about 10K a night to be there...

[spokeshave]

all the new hospitals are built with single patient rooms ....stops the spread of infections like flesh eating bacteria.

[usconservative]

I was at the new Silver Cross hospital in New Lenox, IL in April 2012 for a heart attack --- it really was like being in a 5 star hotel. (Having actually STAYED at 5 star hotels the comparison is accurate.)

From what I'm being told, so-called HIPAA rules no longer allow patients to "share rooms." The days of pulling a curtain and having a "private" conversation with a patient are over. Those conversations now happen in private rooms with patients.

[CodeToad]

Sky Ridge in Denver is known as Spa Ridge.

[sportutegrl]

There is a hospital in New Orleans called the Hotel Dieu. Hotel is the word for Hospital.

[BwanaNdege]

Probably less change of infection at a Marriott. Plus, Room & Board, without the medical charges, is WAY higher in a hospital, any hospital, than in a decent hotel.

[grania]

I would much rather be in an average Holiday Inn Room than in a hotel (or nursing home for seniors). Besides being nicer, it would be cheaper, cleaner, have better bathroom facilities, a window with a view, and a choice of restaurants to order takeout from. I could set the temperature to my comfort level. So why does it cost the average hospital so much to have people living in crowded squalor?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Sound familiar....remember the British princess ... had her baby in the “private wing” of the socialized medicine hospital away from the unwashed masses. Just a little preview of CommieCare .... do you have the mark of the beast for entrance to the private wing or the hospice wing.