hospitals to be closed and staff to be fired (healthcare, money, income)
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We have Forum Health locally, the owner of three hospitals who recently filed bankruptcy and discussions involve possible closing all of them.
Northside Medical Center, Trumbull Memorial Hospital and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital
Have to wonder where this is going to lead with further cuts in medicare and now an incentive for people to drop their insurance to "pay a fine"..
Who needs hospitals anyway? Dump the sick poor into a large dumpster.
No need to fret, the rich will always find medical care. That's the main thing, ain't it.
This article from the San Jose Mercury News seems to indicate that the local public hospitals feel that they will be better off with the new health care bill as it would reduce the number of uninsured patients they'd have to treat:
Clinics and hospital emergency rooms around Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have been increasingly flooded with the uninsured who often wait until a treatable condition becomes life threatening, putting a strain not just on people's health but on the health care system's ability to treat them and pay for their care.
Before Sunday's landmark health care vote, "all county health departments in California were facing an endless downward slide with no bottom in sight," said Jean Fraser, chief of the San
Mateo County Health System, who estimates the bill would cover 67,000 uninsured county residents. "We still have several very challenging years ahead of us and we will work hard to maintain a safety net for our uninsured, but at least we now have an end in sight."With the health care law, she said, "we feel like we're bridging a gap rather than falling into a hole."
At the Gardner Family Health Network, which includes St. James Health Center, about 40 percent of their 35,000 patients are uninsured. At Valley Medical Center in San Jose, run by Santa Clara County, 84 percent of patients who come into the emergency department are uninsured. The number of people using the emergency room has doubled from 200 daily in 2006 to an average of 400 today, spiking to nearly 500 on some days.
"That indicates that people have lost their insurance and are waiting to seek treatment when otherwise they could have sought care earlier," said Sylvia Gallegos, acting director of the Santa Clara Valley Health System. "While the legislation isn't perfect, we certainly welcome it."
Gordon Brown should blame Bush. It'll probably work. England's citizens were naive enough to lay down their arms nationwide over a few shootings, so they'll be naive enough to eat that garbage up too.
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