Comments on: Death for Profit http://symtym.net/2007/04/death_for_profit/ meandering healthcare, law, technology... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:18:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: symtym http://symtym.net/2007/04/death_for_profit/comment-page-1/#comment-300 symtym Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:33:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=824#comment-300 Charles I think you are missing the point, it is the physicians and their investors that are acting just like the ones you are indicting, "the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies...." Profit has motivated the creation of specialized hospitals that lack basic safety features. Your statement, "[t]he issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford[,]" has no logical relevance to the article. Specialty hospitals *only* cater to those with the ability to pay. This article is, plain and simple, another example of cream-skimming the healthcare dollar, and doing so in a manner that may potentially harm or kill the very clients they seek. Trading a savings for a potential threat is not a wise investment. As more cases of harm and death mount, Congressional angst will rise and specialty hospitals will become the subject of ever increasing regulatory burden and their profitability may very well vanish. They may die, not because they are not successful, but because they are not safe. The other side of the coin, which I have touched upon before, is what is the cost of cream-skimming to acute care hospitals and the overall cost to healthcare in the communities served by specialty hospitals. A search in this blog on "specialty hospital" will show several related articles. Charles

I think you are missing the point, it is the physicians and their investors that are acting just like the ones you are indicting, “the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies….” Profit has motivated the creation of specialized hospitals that lack basic safety features.

Your statement, “[t]he issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford[,]” has no logical relevance to the article. Specialty hospitals *only* cater to those with the ability to pay.

This article is, plain and simple, another example of cream-skimming the healthcare dollar, and doing so in a manner that may potentially harm or kill the very clients they seek. Trading a savings for a potential threat is not a wise investment.

As more cases of harm and death mount, Congressional angst will rise and specialty hospitals will become the subject of ever increasing regulatory burden and their profitability may very well vanish. They may die, not because they are not successful, but because they are not safe.

The other side of the coin, which I have touched upon before, is what is the cost of cream-skimming to acute care hospitals and the overall cost to healthcare in the communities served by specialty hospitals. A search in this blog on “specialty hospital” will show several related articles.

]]> By: symtym http://symtym.net/2007/04/death_for_profit/comment-page-1/#comment-302 symtym Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:33:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=824#comment-302 Charles<br><br>I think you are missing the point, it is the physicians and their investors that are acting just like the ones you are indicting, "the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies...." Profit has motivated the creation of specialized hospitals that lack basic safety features.<br><br>Your statement, "[t]he issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford[,]" has no logical relevance to the article. Specialty hospitals *only* cater to those with the ability to pay.<br><br>This article is, plain and simple, another example of cream-skimming the healthcare dollar, and doing so in a manner that may potentially harm or kill the very clients they seek. Trading a savings for a potential threat is not a wise investment.<br><br>As more cases of harm and death mount, Congressional angst will rise and specialty hospitals will become the subject of ever increasing regulatory burden and their profitability may very well vanish. They may die, not because they are not successful, but because they are not safe.<br><br>The other side of the coin, which I have touched upon before, is what is the cost of cream-skimming to acute care hospitals and the overall cost to healthcare in the communities served by specialty hospitals. A search in this blog on "specialty hospital" will show several related articles. Charles

I think you are missing the point, it is the physicians and their investors that are acting just like the ones you are indicting, “the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies….” Profit has motivated the creation of specialized hospitals that lack basic safety features.

Your statement, “[t]he issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford[,]” has no logical relevance to the article. Specialty hospitals *only* cater to those with the ability to pay.

This article is, plain and simple, another example of cream-skimming the healthcare dollar, and doing so in a manner that may potentially harm or kill the very clients they seek. Trading a savings for a potential threat is not a wise investment.

As more cases of harm and death mount, Congressional angst will rise and specialty hospitals will become the subject of ever increasing regulatory burden and their profitability may very well vanish. They may die, not because they are not successful, but because they are not safe.

The other side of the coin, which I have touched upon before, is what is the cost of cream-skimming to acute care hospitals and the overall cost to healthcare in the communities served by specialty hospitals. A search in this blog on “specialty hospital” will show several related articles.

]]> By: Charles http://symtym.net/2007/04/death_for_profit/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Charles Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:49:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=824#comment-299 Seems to me Grassley, Baucus, Stark and the rest of congress would better spend their time in and out of committee addressing the unscrupulous politicos working for or in public office who, for their own enrichment, pander to the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies and the various business and special interests that make specialized hospitals something more noteworthy than other specialized business catering to elite in search of basic needs like food and shelter i.e. classy restaurants, and five star resorts. Such establishments also turn away those who can not pay the price. The issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford. What you have really highlighted is that national health care initiatives have progressed no further than our basic right to call 911, which in an emergency, is the implied responsibility of the health care facility that, knowing you must eat, sends you to McDonalds or knowing you must sleep, sends you to Motel 6. Seems to me Grassley, Baucus, Stark and the rest of congress would better spend their time in and out of committee addressing the unscrupulous politicos working for or in public office who, for their own enrichment, pander to the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies and the various business and special interests that make specialized hospitals something more noteworthy than other specialized business catering to elite in search of basic needs like food and shelter i.e. classy restaurants, and five star resorts. Such establishments also turn away those who can not pay the price. The issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford. What you have really highlighted is that national health care initiatives have progressed no further than our basic right to call 911, which in an emergency, is the implied responsibility of the health care facility that, knowing you must eat, sends you to McDonalds or knowing you must sleep, sends you to Motel 6.

]]> By: Charles http://symtym.net/2007/04/death_for_profit/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Charles Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:49:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=824#comment-301 Seems to me Grassley, Baucus, Stark and the rest of congress would better spend their time in and out of committee addressing the unscrupulous politicos working for or in public office who, for their own enrichment, pander to the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies and the various business and special interests that make specialized hospitals something more noteworthy than other specialized business catering to elite in search of basic needs like food and shelter i.e. classy restaurants, and five star resorts. Such establishments also turn away those who can not pay the price. The issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford. What you have really highlighted is that national health care initiatives have progressed no further than our basic right to call 911, which in an emergency, is the implied responsibility of the health care facility that, knowing you must eat, sends you to McDonalds or knowing you must sleep, sends you to Motel 6. Seems to me Grassley, Baucus, Stark and the rest of congress would better spend their time in and out of committee addressing the unscrupulous politicos working for or in public office who, for their own enrichment, pander to the legal profession, the insurance cartels, the pharmaceutical companies and the various business and special interests that make specialized hospitals something more noteworthy than other specialized business catering to elite in search of basic needs like food and shelter i.e. classy restaurants, and five star resorts. Such establishments also turn away those who can not pay the price. The issue is not what those with, can afford, but what those without, can not afford. What you have really highlighted is that national health care initiatives have progressed no further than our basic right to call 911, which in an emergency, is the implied responsibility of the health care facility that, knowing you must eat, sends you to McDonalds or knowing you must sleep, sends you to Motel 6.

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