To venividivici: You wrote, “Last time I was in a hospital, the people doing the medical treatment and the people doing the admitting were different individuals.”
Which has nothing to do with dealing with needless readmissions — it’s a completely different issue.
Context, context, and what particular problem is being addressed….
And you also wrote, “In addition, if the issue were really simply trying to balance workloads, why does the bill also, according to the author of the linked piece, ‘allow the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding’, when expansion would be a potentially more effective way of addressing the issue of wait times?”
Again, you’re missing the context and the underlying reasons — for one thing, not all hospitals are the same. In recent years there’s been this growth of what can be called boutique hospitals, usually physician owned, that only deal with high profit treatments, and usually catering to the wealthy. Such hospitals are not only not useful for improving overall health care, but may be detrimental by creating a caste system of sorts for health care. That provision in Obama’s plan is obviously targeting this allowing controls for limiting their expansion.
See, calling me stupid is, well, pretty damn stupid, especially considering all the insanely off the mark reasons you and the other twinklebrains keep coming up to bad mouth the bill. Either make the effort to understand it or, ummm, what’s that acronym, with 4 letters, meaning something along the lines of “put a cork in it”….
