People, including members of Congress, can debate the pros and cons of physician-owned hospitals. But it’s too large and distinct an issue to belong in the legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Yet the version of the House-passed bill includes language that would bar physician-owned hospitals from expanding, restrict physician investment in such hospitals and prevent new Medicare reimbursement approvals for them. Fortunately, the Senate’s version of the SCHIP bill lacks the tangential attack on the 199 physician-owned hospitals nationwide and 85 in development. Members of Congress should pass a clean SCHIP expansion, and leave any rethinking of physician-owned hospitals for another day.
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I’d rather argue religion owned hospitals.
What absolutely has to happen though, is access to care for the disabled and elderly and mentally ill. And folks, that’s not happening. They’re falling through the cracks.
You mean those religion owned hospitals which take more public funding than public hospitals yet still force their religion upon their patients and use discrimination in their hiring practices?
How do they FORCE their religion on their patients? Hospitals don’t provide abortion or birth control services nowadays. If you want your tubes tied after a birth..you simply go to Wesley..that’s what I did.
I’d love to stay, but work is calling. Don’t forget Friday!
Physician owned hospitals don’t fit into the socialist health plan of nanny government.
Political_mama
Posted January 20, 2009 at 6:31 am | Permalink
I’d rather argue religion owned hospitals.
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My family has had the best care at religion owned hospitals. You have your choice of hospitals where you work and where you get care. What more do you want.
Maggotpunk
Posted January 20, 2009 at 6:35 am | Permalink
You mean those religion owned hospitals which take more public funding than public hospitals
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How do they do that?
Back in my ad-biz days, one of our clients was a hospital run by “The Little Sisters of St. Andrew.” (We called the nuns that ran the place “the Andrews Sisters.)
Anyway, they came up with a promotional idea specifically focused on “people with no insurance who plan to pay their bills.” (Micro-direct marketing.) They wanted to promote their Maternity Department (all the best OB-GYNs chose to practice in a hospital which permitted tubal ligations and other procedures) with what was basically a Drive-By Delivery price special.
To pad the offer they included free pre-natal and parenting classes, some other give-aways and finally, free classes to teach “natural” birth control, to which one of the Andrews Sisters chimed in, “So we’ll be sure they’ll have another baby!”
RA,
This was 25 years ago, but when my wife was in St. Joe in a coma after a stroke, a priest walked into her room in ICU and insisted that since she was dying, he had a duty to give her last rites (even though she wasn’t catholic) and when I told him no, he couldn’t, he got very nasty, saying I was condemning her soul to eternity in hell. Shortly after he left in a huff, she showed signs of coming out of her coma. She recovered consciousness and lived another 6 years! I hate to think of what would’ve happened if she had sensed that priest giving up on her.
Sorry Jed..but those who aren’t Catholic can’t receive the last rites from a priest. No priest would have insisted on giving the Sacrament to a non-Catholic, especially 25 years ago. The church is more inclusive today..but not much.
Mary_Caruso
Posted January 20, 2009 at 8:25 pm | Permalink
Sorry Jed..but those who aren’t Catholic can’t receive the last rites from a priest.
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Jed, looks like you got busted lying.
Great story if you like fiction. Makes those dam Catholics look REAL bad.
What some people won’t do to bash religion.
Now comes the long-winded explination as to why Jed isn’t a garden-variety liar.