Healthcare Education and Q&A Thread

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Originally Posted by saden1

My sentiments also applies to urban hospitals. I understand the problem fully, we have this bastardized hybrid system where hospitals are "basically government hospitals" when they aught to be "fully taxpayer funded government hospitals."


Let me ask you this, are there any type of savings having universal healthcare would yield? I know the AHA was all for saving taxpayers 155 billion no too long ago if 95% of Americans were coverage.

That is definitely an extreme view, out of touch with reality, and doomed to failure. Trust me, we can run our hospital a lot more efficiently than the government can.

We answer to the University, who will have our ass if we lose more money than they expect us to lose. They're willing to fund us to a certain extent, and if we lose more than we told them, they'll send us packing in a heartbeat. Our CEO and COO were pushed out the door last year, in fact. We just had a round of layoffs, too.

If the government runs us, then we ultimately get backed by the giant pit of money collected from the American taxpayer. Answering to the government would be a nice respite from the pressure we currently feel to meet targets. The University is up our ass because we are the only hospitals they have. Imagine a management team that has to manage every hospital in the country, or at least lots and lots of hospitals. Pretty easy to have your failures fly under their radar.

Sounds like Tenet, a large hospital operator. No wonder they had to close so many in the last few years.