How would Hahnemann have stayed open on that basis?

system. You do know that the private for profit health insurance system also negotiates hospital rates down as low as they can, right?

Under MFA the hospitals will get reimbursed at the same rate for every patient that gets served. No collections costs, no unpaid bills, no complicated multi vendor billing systems.

But for profit health services will continue to be vulnerable to market forces seeking ever higher profits.

He's accused of viewing it as nothing but a real estate investment, valuing property value over patients. And according to the article at the link, his family "are the beneficiaries of a trust that owns 90 percent of the equity in the Philadelphia venture." And he has the gall to blame doctors for not stepping up to improve documentation and therefore, billing.

Fucking obscene Wall Street vultures.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/hahnemann-turnaround-closure-california-banker-joel-freedman-20190408.html

5 had positive revenue
1 was break even
8 lost money

So do you agree with Sanders?

...as they say, "charity begins at home"!

The declining demographics of college-aged students and more stringent financial requirements to maintain accreditation hit at the same time.

--Expenses growing faster than revenue.

--Demographic decline creating a shortage of qualified staffers which leads to reduced patient loads and hiring of expensive temp workers.

--Declining local economies with more patients on Medicaid.

--Demographic shifts hitting rural areas, with communities shrinking by large numbers.

Google North Carolina rural hospitals and you'll see the same. We have a healthcare crisis in this country.

could focus on the healthcare crisis we have in this country.

Well done!

What flag/symbol are they going to appropriate next, with us yielding?

The double twist.

Impressive.

under the stewardship of an inept president?

Always super cool to see it here first!

Thanks for the thread DonViejo.