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Sat Jul 25 15:36:16 BST 2009

The fun part, Dr. McSwain, is that it is within living memory that at least 
 some of the Charity Hospitals (in particular EA Conway Hospital in Monroe 
and,  IIRC, HP Long Hospital in Pineville, both now part of the LSU Medical  
Center system) were able to operate far enough in the black that they were  
forced to turn a fair amount of money back over to the general revenue 
fund. 

While we weren't on the list of top 100 hospitals then, I'd like to thing  
that in the late 1980s and early 1990s we were at least providing decent 
care  for the folks in our catchment areas. (Yes, I trained at EA Conway, and 
then  came back a few years later as a clinical instructor.)

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO

In a message dated 7/25/2009 08:25:58 Central Standard Time,  
nmcswai at tulane.edu writes:

Ken is  correct. It is all smoke and mirrors. It shifts power from private 
enterprise  to the government. it shifts from capitalism to socialism. This 
will create a  czar of medicine who will decide what medical care is given 
and  when.

It will not work as advertised.

I can say that from  experience. I come from the only state in the Union 
with universal health  care. In fact, we have had such a system since the 
1930's. Gov. Huey P. Long  created a medical care system  that "no citizen is 
more than a day's  horse back ride away from a hospital'. Every Louisiana 
citizen is guaranteed  health care Our system cost almost more per capita than 
any state in the union  and our health care is very close to the bottom. I 
believe we are 4th from the  top in cost and 4th from the bottom in outcome.

If that is your goal  for US health care, then support the current 
legislation  unchanged.

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