Submitted by steve, Nov 29, 2006 17:02

As a health professional for the last 25 years I know something about healthcare as well. What the commission did was disgraceful. The report was the about the simplest of human motivations, Money, Power and Influence. It was the death blow to the little guy in healthcare who does the job because they actually care. It was orchestrated by the big corporate mega hospital systems to lock down market share and "Support" politicians aspirations.

Just take a look at the details of the report, it's on line and available. The commission has even gone to the mega hospitals CEO's and told them about all the new business that's coming there way, and guess what, here's the kicker, the state is going to cough up millions and millions to "Help Them" take care of there new bootie, aka patients.

Now lets get to the biggest joke here, has anyone noticed who is NOT on the list? None of the big boys have to cut anything, none of the city hospitals have been touched, none of the facilities in Charlie Rangel and Shelly Silver's districts have been touched. They ALL have massive waste and duplication. In the case of the city facilities it's institutionalized waste. I know the facilities, I know the administrators, they actually get in trouble if they don't spend all the money they budget for in a year.

Disgraceful, the smaller facilities they want to close provide better care at a cheaper cost with much much less overhead.

Don't be fooled, this is ALL about Money, Power and Influence. Nothing more.

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