"Health provider predicts big loss"
"by Jeffrey Krasner, Globe Staff | March 17, 2008
Cambridge Health Alliance, a key part of the Boston area's healthcare network, is facing a potentially "catastrophic" loss this year and is looking to eliminate up to 300 jobs, or about 9 percent of its workforce, in an effort to stabilize finances.
The alliance, which includes Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital, and Whidden Hospital in Everett, says it is being hit hard by the state's new healthcare reform law, which has left it responsible for providing free care for those without insurance while reducing the hospitals' compensation for such services....
Thanks, Mitt!
By the way, they didn't pick up my $1000 tab for the broken thumb I had, either!
Cambridge Health Alliance is the last publicly funded healthcare system in the state. In addition to the three hospitals, the system includes 20 community health centers. It is the largest provider of mental health and addiction treatment services in the state. Of 348 beds in use, 45 percent are devoted to mental health and addiction treatment, an unusually high proportion....
Ah, to hell with those druggies and ertards!
We got OCCUPATIONS to PAY FOR and BANKS to BAIL OUT, dammit!!!
Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, state secretary of health and human services... acknowledged that the healthcare system is burdened because mental health services don't pay as well as complex medical procedures like heart surgery and cancer treatment. But she also said the state had compensated the alliance for payments that were delayed by the federal government."
Oooooooooooh, FINANCIAL PROBLEMS at the health centers brought about by DELAYED FEDERAL FUNDING!!!!!!!!!
Why, it GO TO the OCCUPATIONS and BAILOUTS!!!!!!
I have FUCKING HAD IT with this GOD-DAMN, WAR-CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT and its FUCKING NEGLIGENCE!!!!
