[End Times Sentinel]

Hahnemann is the primary hospital in Philadelphia for police escorted patients. Every year, hundreds of peer induced trauma patients are admitted, racking up untold hundreds of thousands in medical bills, without the slightest thought of paying them. In fact, this census is more likely to bring a law suit against the hospital. So, who pays? Doctors, Nurses, Technicians, and support staff, by losing their jobs. Some people don't just take, they destroy as well.

[spintreebob]

Walmart and most stores have loss leaders to get people in the door. These businesses hope that the customers will fillup their shopping cart with many items that are not loss leaders.

Surviving Hospitals can be compared to this. Their customer is Medicare and Medicaid for over 40% of their money, over 50% in many Hospitals.

Surviving Hospitals treat a patient for the one complaint that brought the patient in the door. They also run a series of tests. These tests are allegedly for the benefit of the patient. But in reality they are trying to find products of the Hospital that they can use to fill the shopping cart of the customer, the government.

Patients and patient problmems (real and fantasized) are just products thrown into the shopping cart. Patients are not the customer.

Hospitals who know how to play the game survive. Hospitals who don’t know how to play the game are dead.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I wonder what the bureaucrats will do when the no longer paid nurses, doctors, janitors, etc. fail to show up ... arrest the parking lot manager?

[Chode]

the FREESH1T Army strikes again!!!

everything is FREE till a place closes...

[Albion Wilde]

Philly ping!

[PapaBear3625]

Staff are putting out resumes to other hospitals, and leaving when accepted. Doctors are not showing up, because they don't know if they will get paid (doctors are mostly considered sub-contractors, not employees, and are low on the list for payment in case of bankruptcy). The hospital has just filed Chapter 11.

And yet the PA and Philly governments demand they stay open and continue to treat people who do not pay.

[RFEngineer]

Hospitals in urban areas are the demonstrators for the dysfunction of socialism.

Cash-only membership-based hospitals are the only possible facility-based solution.

They must have the fortitude to turn away sick and injured people who are not members.

From the socialist governments perspective, these must be outlawed.

There is no middle ground possible.

If you’re not a member of a private hospital you will die in the public hospital waiting room (assuming you can fit into the waiting room) when sick or injured - unless through random chance a public hospital, if one is even available, manages to keep you alive.

The news reporting writes itself. A sick illegal immigrant child dies at the door of a private hospital and will be extensively reported using a guided checklist of guilt, self-loathing, and class envy. The 3 dozen who die in the public hospital waiting room at the same time will go unreported.