
Hospitals: The cost of admission
December 2, 2012 4:42 PM
Steve Kroft investigates allegations from doctors that the hospital chain they worked for pressured them to admit patients regardless of their medical needs.
Hospitals: The cost of admission
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See all 142 CommentsI would rather kill myself if I ever got sicked. Never step in hospital.
Regarding your investigative report on the Health Management Associates corporation:
I am a health care industry investor and unlike the doctors you interviewed who care for people, I do not. I care for profit. And the CEOs of all of the health care companies in which I invest, work for me the stock holder. Our goal is to make the most money we can, while providing service in a way that keeps us in business and within the law as our attorneys interpret it.
Why is there such shock when it is discovered that profit drives our policies and practice, rather than what is good for patients and the nation.
The old time highway robbers used say "Your money or your life", and many of them were caught and hung. We can take your money and your life, and remain respected pillars of the community.
Our nation has socialized military, socialized police departments and socialized court systems, because we know that if those institutions were profit based it would subject America to great harm and expense perpetrated by people like me. For profit health care is no different.
Richard Garrison
News Reporter for Cooper Broadcasting, Inc. - WMNC AM / FM
Morganton, NC
website: www.bigdawg92fm.com
I will also add that there is a huge problem of understaffing throughout the hospital which directly relates to unsafe patient care but if you are one to voice these concerns you are told to seek employment elsewhere. A little difficult to do with only 1 hospital in town. So...what do you do when the attorney general won't respond ? the board won't respond?
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