In response to your inquiry on the hospitals political stand on the public option support, we have none. We only have a medical point of view. Medically speaking, the public option would ensure the health of our society’s most vulnerable. Furthermore, a public option would benefit even those who opt for private insurance. Consider how epidemics tend to originate, gestate, and profligate from low income demographics (aka the
Pine Flu of ‘06). This is the very same demographic that the PO would cover
the majority of. By securing affordable medical care for these communities,
medical institutions we be able to more quickly diagnose and contain carriers who would otherwise avoid costly medical visits.
Or something along those lines.. we should write these and other similar
arguments into concise talking points, and pass them onto the politicians on
our board.
On a side note, has anyone in the accounting office projected how much of
the cost for crash test dummy care we could externalize by charging them
through a public insurer? They tend to always be high care, high expense
patients that always show up at our ER. It could be a real help in getting
us back in the black.
~Administrator>>
