It¡¯s in today¡¯s New York Times and was on last night¡¯s local TV news (Santa Clara was mentioned but I¡¯m sure not the only). You¡¯d have to look up which.?
I heard from a friend Crane Pavilion is being set up again but way late and no idea why no ships, again and other land buildings as he did before when they end up not being needed. I?
I don¡¯t think any of the competition stuff applies during emergencies. And, this isn¡¯t about a general hospital shortages (though there are some), as hospitals just aren¡¯t ever prepared for this amount of need.
I'm kind of surprised that isn't a bigger story too.?Which hospitals are turning people away and letting them die, Judith??
A "root cause" here is lack of sufficient capacity, i.e. why aren't there more treatment facilities available? The answer may have to do with regulations like "certificate of need laws", which in many states limit competition by requiring proposed new health care facilities to get the approval of existing facilties before opening. (Yes, this regulation actually is as dumb as it sounds!)...
"Over the past 50 years, most states enacted (and many still retain)
Certificate of Need (CON) laws, whose stated purpose is to control
medical costs by limiting the supply of services and facilities to only
what is ¡°needed,¡± as determined by a state board or agency. Simply put,
CON laws make it illegal for healthcare providers to offer services to
patients, or to purchase certain medical equipment, without first
getting permission from those providers already operating in the market.
That permission is often denied¡ªnot because of any threat to public
health, but solely to prevent legitimate economic competition.
Soon after the federal government encouraged states to adopt such
laws in the 1970s, it became clear that this cost control experiment was
a failure. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of
Justice, and several academic studies found that by eliminating
competition, CON laws actually drove up costs, lowered quality, and
limited the availability of needed services. As the American Medical
Association succinctly put it: ¡°CON laws represent a failed public
policy.¡±
Yet 38 states still have CON laws on their books, and continue to
require government approval before building or expanding a healthcare
facility or service¡ªapproval that can hinge on whether existing
hospitals are willing to allow others to enter the market to compete
against them.1 This is primarily because existing providers benefit handsomely from CON laws, which allow them to block would-be competitors."
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On Jan 5, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Judith Gottesman wrote:
CA hospitals are telling ambulances to let people die and don¡¯t bring them in in the United States of America. Why isn¡¯t this the main news?
Newsom set up temp hospitals here by my place by the Marina crane pavilion & on military ships (& brought in health care workers from across US) that we¡¯re not needed, long ago, so they were dismantled and sent away. Why not do it again last month in anticipation, or at least, now when we¡¯re so desperately needed???
Why isn¡¯t the media or politicians or pandemic experts talking about it and getting it done? Why only I am?
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