“You will never get a hospital,” declared Michael J. Dowling, CEO of North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, before a packed auditorium at PS 41. He received a roar of protest which triggered a defensive Dowling to reply, “It will cost $80 million.” However, since that night more than a year ago, hospital after hospital has been closed and 10 more are slated to go. It will cost billions to rebuild them. The question is, should they be closing?
“You don’t need a hospital” was my imperious dismissal by the diminutive investment broker Steven Berger who headed a commission to justify closing New York hospitals because “we have too many beds.” Yet today, we read in The Times of a shortage of beds with Brooklyn’s Maimonides “now widely considered one of the only financially solid private hospitals in Brooklyn…operating its psychiatric beds at capacity or above.”
“Closing Hospitals is not a health policy,” offers mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio and asks that control of our city’s health system be returned to the people of New York who need and use it. He asks for a “Health Care Authority with its members appointed by the mayor and the governor with the power to reshape the delivery of care to better serve the community – change leadership of hospitals and expedite mergers. The authority would have control over money the state is seeking from a federal Medicaid waiver, including funds to stabilize safety net hospitals.”
“The federal waiver application could bring up to $10 billion state-wide, but it has yet to be approved – Christine C. Quinn has issued a letter urging federal officials to approve it.” He further offers, “We are faced with a crisis in our health care delivery system.”
That crisis is that the ever-increasing cost of delivery medical services allows that only the rich, insured or Medicare and Medicaid recipients can afford it and Obama Care is still months or years away. Furthermore, we don’t know if ObamaCare will fix the problem. Closing hospitals only to have to rebuild them later makes no sense.
Remarkably, the “we have too many hospital beds” former commissioner Steven Berger said that “parts of the de Blasio plan were worth serious discussion. Particularly the city-and-state collaboration and we should go after the $10 billion in Federal funds. He acknowledged that “what is happening in Brooklyn is a massive tragedy – We have no way to keep alive institutions that are fundamentally financially broke and losing dollars.”
We have the most expensive health care in the world, but not the best. Even with ObamaCare, it will be years before it makes more sense and begins to approach an equitable working system. However, in just days we have a chance to vote for a new mayor who may stop closing hospitals as a way of making health care affordable.
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The cost-effective way to increase cost-efficiency for hospitals, health clinics and their suppliers (as target customers) is to redistribute the elastic energy in cost, revenue and production curves. This can generate more kinetic energy that can drive the budgets of healthcare price-market institutions by converting red shifts in kinetic energy levels to blue shifts in kinetic energy. It is the blue shifts that can solve hospital revenue shortfall and debt accumulation problems when the increased oscillations of refractive wave pulses generate more hospital operating revenue by increasing the rates of return on sales and capital turnover rates. This can generate more budget revenue by increasing the rates of return (ROI) for the working capital invested in the market development and market operations opportunities along the mark-up chains for hospitals, health clinics and their suppliers. SO LET’S STOP CLOSING HOSPITALS AND USING BUDGET CUTS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.