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But the system was supported by oil money which is no longer available. Now Big Charity in New Orleans (which does operate in the black) supports the rest of the Charity hospitals in the southern part of the state. I am not familiar with the finances of those in the north

Norman

Norman McSwain MD
Trauma Director, Charity Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Tulane University
New Orleans LA
504 988 5111
norman.mcswain at tulane.edu <mailto:norman.mcswain at tulane.edu> 

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Subject: Re: BRAVO to the ACS

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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