Hospitals Cost
June 13th, 2006
An editorial in the New York Times, entitled Curing New York Hospitals, comments on the governor’s commission “to address the financial crisis facing the state’s health care facilities.” Though its recommendations are not scheduled until December, the commission has “already done important work in prodding troubled facilities to make changes on their own.” But more changes are necessary, because “it’s impossible to duck the fact that New York’s health care costs appear to be spinning out of control. Long term care is the most expensive in the nation, thanks to generous Medicaid coverage and fraud that has mostly gone uncurbed. Hospital costs are driven up by huge numbers of uninsured — 1.3 million in the state in 2005, about a third of that number in the city… Any hospital closing is painful to the community involved, and particularly to the staff that works there, and it’s far from certain that closings will do as much to curb costs as the commission hopes. But the issue needs to be addressed.”
By Jonathan Mandell on June 13, 2006, 12:01 amIn category: Health, Public Finance | 3 Comments »


June 14th, 2006 at 8:42 am
It’s a good thing barbers who do bloodletting were not represented by Local 1199 and the Greater New York Hospital Association.
Otherwise, we’d still be paying to keep thousands of bloodletters employed via Medicaid. And with so few people choosing to have the procedure, we’d by paying several million dollars for each.
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July 10th, 2006 at 12:30 am
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7/10/06
Gotham Gazette
http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2006/06/13/hospitals-cost/