Getting to Know Kamala Harris: How Biden’s running mate blocked a hospital rescue to help the SEIU.

Wall Street Journal ^ | August 12, 2020 | WSJ Editorial Board

[karpov]

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made their first appearances as a campaign ticket on Wednesday, and Americans still know little about the running mate who may be President sooner rather than later. One way to fill in the gap is to inspect Ms. Harris’s record as California’s Attorney General, and one revealing episode is the way she used her power to blow up a deal to rescue struggling Catholic hospitals.

The saga started in 2014 when for-profit Prime Healthcare Services made an $843 million bid for six insolvent hospitals operated by the Catholic Daughters of Charity Health System. The hospitals had been bleeding cash for years due to inflexible labor contracts and miserly Medicaid payments

Prime Healthcare was the only bidder that agreed to assume Daughters’ $300 million liability for worker pensions, and it scored high on the bidding criteria that included financial wherewithal and service quality. Nurses, physicians and the public supported the deal.

But the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), which represented 2,000 hospital workers at Daughters, opposed Prime’s takeover because the company refused to sign a neutrality agreement that would let them organize all of Prime’s hospitals. Only four of Prime’s 15 hospitals in California at the time were unionized.

California’s Attorney General must approve nonprofit hospital acquisitions, and Ms. Harris attached dozens of poison pills to the deal. They included requiring 24-hour nursing, surgery, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology and pharmacies for five years and mandating that hospitals offer an additional 12 to 18 “essential services” such as orthopedics for 10 years. These conditions were unprecedented.

Prime walked away from the deal and sued Ms. Harris for violating its due-process rights.

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[RinaseaofDs]

Outstanding post.

This stuff is going to come out every day until the election.

What a choice. Why would they choose this person?

I can see Biden. He’s going to be yanked the week after he’s elected. He won’t even make it until January. He’ll have a ‘stroke’ and that will be that.

The rumor I saw said she’s the only one the DNC would consider who would take the job of nursing him through until election day. Abrams would have, but she’s even more of a mess.

[dp0622]

i always get a kick when someone who has Recently proven themselves to be a terrible candidate and heavy loser of a recent battle (primaries) is thought of as a good pick for vp

if she was that good, she’d be in biden’s place

couldn’t beat a an old man with dementia, an old communist and a bat #### crazy fake indian, among others

[chopperk]

Ms. Harris has one goal and that is to run the US gov’t no matter what it takes. She will push Joe out and make a takeover of the DNC leaving Joe to smile and play grabass with women and their daughters.

[ronnie raygun]

Im sure jill is excited at the choice. From willy ho to joe ho. She takes care of the ol coot once a week and gets to run the country into the ground

[ken in texas]

- This stuff is going to come out every day until the election. -

But most people probably won't know about it because their source for "news" didn't mention it. Besides that, they blindly vote "D" because they know all Republicans are evil.

[Getready]

Prime had been known to up charge for its services and treating its workers as tools. When in process for acquiring the hospitals they were bidding on, they were presumptively giving seminars to the docs about proper documentation for reimbursement. Big health money harvesters.
The big problem was that the Daughters of Charity insisted on selling all 6 of their institutions to the bidder. They did not want to parcel them out. You are going to get the worst bidders, but they wanted to get rid of all of them. Someone was gonna have to take at least a risk of losing a billion.
It was a case of bad actors all around. The DOC, U.S. and Cali. government health regulations,prime, SEIU (typical abusive union to workers and administration) and the Indian/Jamaican AG who by admission was having sex with her mentor who furthered her career. Can you say Harvey Weinstein-esque? What could go wrong in that toxic mix?