[Info-vax] Down Again

[David J Dachtera]

winstonsmith wrote:
> 
> On Aug 8, 3:49 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > David J Dachtera wrote:
> > > Your's truly has once again been made "redundant".
> >
> > Make sure you don't get too close to a scalpel weilding surgeon, they
> > are trained to remove redundant stuff :-)
> >
> > Sorry to hear about your situation. Out of curiosity, how does the
> > business side of hospitals feel about what Obama would like to do to the
> > health care system in the USA ? Will it affect them negatively (lower
> > revenus) or positively (more customers) ?
> 
> They like it, because they were already starting to modernize anyway
> and would appreciate the $$$. The $$$ they are spending "comes out of
> a separate budget" or that is the excuse why they've frozen salaries,
> dropped the retirement plan but still are spending like mad on
> building projects and technology.

You need to understand teh difference between a for-profit and a
non-profit hospital.

The for-profits are in deep spit.

The non-profits are reaping what they have sown. Some NPO hospitals
still have to build/renovate to keep from showing a profit. Others -
like my former gig - are taking it on the chin because of their
investments. As they lose equity, they lose financial strength overall.
So, their cash flow takes a hit as well as the balance sheet.

Of recent, the business schools prepared students for a boom economy. In
the current bust economy, they flounder - badly. This is not unique to
healthcare, of course.

As the question of "what Obama wants to do", you need reframe that. It's
what the public wants healthcare to do versus what healthcare management
wants to do to the public. Obama is just the advocate for the common
American. You've got insurance companies practicing medicine unlicensed,
RNs and LPNs second-guessing MD and specialists, and many other manners
of greed and evil trying to dictate who gets care and who doesn't, who
lives and who doesn't, etc. as a means to please shareholders.

So long as healthcare includes for-profit entities, evil and greed will
continue to rule the day.

D.J.D.