DC General Hospital Closing Is National Catastrophe
DC General Hospital Closing Is National Catastrophe
DC general at one time was a premier hospital, but when Ted Kennedy FORCED all hospital emergency rooms to serve patients whether they could pay or not, the unintended consequences FORCED that Hospital to close. When there were enough patients that could pay, those that couldn't got FREE healthcare. But then those paying patients started to have to pay more so others could continue to get FREE. Pretty soon no more paying patients showed up, and the hospital had to close.
Closing a Hospital, and Fearing for the Future
The hospital and its outpatient clinics, owned by the Mercy health care system in St. Louis, was where people in this city of 9,000 turned for everything from sore throats to emergency treatment after a car crash. Now, many say they are worried about what losing Mercy will mean not just for their own health, but for their community’s future.
When you VOTE for liberalism, the unintended consequences of doing that might just end up killing you.
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Yeah ... we all get that when other people's money runs out, employees and plant maintenance tend to decline. That whole "doors won't open" bit was BS (generators only operate when city electric is down or the bill is unpaid) as other doors would have been available.
The possibility that staff had been laid-off (or quit) would be understandable if DC General wasn't attracting paying customers.
So about half way through the article a name began to appear (Mr. LaRouche, excerpts below) with gushing claims to his being right about something without explaining who he is or quoting him. A quick search turned up who (Lyndon LaRouche) and what EIR is (his website).
I can't imagine that you don't know about the ex-con or his small legion of devout, cult-like followers.
Frankly the whole article has a stench of a typical Lyndon LaRouche "infomercial" extolling the virtues of LL:
EIR: There are various schemes and plans, that people have tried to come up with, around the hospital. Of course, it all boils down, as Mr. LaRouche has said, to a question between whether you believe the general welfare is primary, or shareholder or slaveholder values are primary...
I think Mr. LaRouche hits it right on the head, when he says that, not only should this hospital be reinstated as a full-service medical facility, by those who use the city's services the most--it is basically the Federal employees. But all those services, those outreach services, in which D.C. General used to participate, that had such an impact on the community--all of those should also augment the total reinstatement of a full-service center...
The plan, again, Mr. LaRouche is right on target. The only plan is quite simple. It's the plan that's worked, and that is, to reinstate the hospital...