Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee Posts 92Comments 155Joined 1 mo. ago
Congrats! I hope this momentum keeps up across the country!
In this case the hospital cannot afford to pay both the salary of CEOs and doctors that provide care.
So cuts have to be made somewhere. You're suggesting the rational thing to do in this case would be to cut the doctors and keep the CEOs so that they can keep lights on in an empty building. That's so crazy it just might work. Problem solved.
Yep fuck Sinclair broadcasting too, but as you can see, the only news covering this is from local Indiana news reporting.
How is a hospital "functioning" if there's nobody there to provide care? That's kind of the whole point of hospitals.
Yeah fuck the intercept, not really the point.
My point is that while big news networks are fucking around it's the locals news and individuals who are getting fucked over the most by this bullshit who are actually trying to make sure this shit doesn't get buried
Great, I'm actually trying to find a new primary care doctor right now.
Tried to call my old office to see if they could help me and it rang and rang until it eventually hung up on me.
Just tried to contact one the main number to make an appointment and got a voicemail telling me to leave briefly message.
Tried to call a third number the nurses help hotline provided me and it rang once and hung up.
I'll probably just end up going to CVS again and using their minute clinic, which actually seems to have a better handle on healthcare at this point than the giant corporation that has purchased every hospital in the area.
But I'm glad we have CEOs at every campus making sure everything runs so smoothly even though there are no doctors available to provide healthcare.
True, there was not a whole lot of mainstream media coverage of assange but there were journalists from places like the intercept and I believe rolling stone or vice also covering it.
In this case, and many cases all over the country lately, I'm finding that tiny local news outlets are doing a better job keeping us informed than mainstream media or even larger less mainstream news outlets.
Also realized that if this was a case of spying it would seem very unlikely he would have a lawyer at his residence while it was being raided but who tf knows. Not us.
What are you talking about. State secrets are well protected by Elon Musk
Yeah, if only we had a free press that could keep the public informed about matters so we could know what the fuck is actually going on anymore.
It's especially weird the university just didn't release a statement about it or anything.
It definitely could go either way
If we actually still had a free press, you would expect this to be getting some coverage and for there to be some kind of statement from the University's lawyers saying they were cooperating with the FBI if this guy was legitimately wanted for shady dealings.
It's fucking sad that we all read this and have to think, is this the FBI handling a legitimate threat or is this why DHS keeps complaining about Civil Rights Offices standing in their way.
Then what is the point of having a monopoly control everything in the first place? If every campus needs its own CEO to be making decisions what exactly is the benefit of having LCMC or Oschner controlling all of these hospitals?
It seems like you could be providing better healthcare with less bureaucracy if you just let individual hospitals take care of patients. Especially since most of these hospitals already existed before these companies came in and saved the day by purchasing all of these hospitals.
The whole point of having a giant monopoly is that all hospitals are under the same control with the same policy and regulations.
This is not normal.
Certainly not enough of them. Especially not on smaller levels.
It's a sad fact, but even though so many Democrats claim to be anti establishment, many are in fact part of the establishment and receiving giant donations from banks and corporations.
It's one of the first things AOC pointed out when she was elected.
On the other hand so many Republicans claim to love small government and transparency, but many are also getting funded at the state level by some very shady corporations and groups like SPN and the heritage foundation.
The SPN is a network created by one of the earliest funders of Heritage Foundation. They use money to influence policy at the state level to make it seem like small government and representative of individuals in the state, but really it represents interests of some very powerful people and their corporations.
I'm not saying any of this as an attack on people with views that lean democratic or Republican. I only point it out because we all need to shift away from the idea of treating politics and politicians as a sports team that we have to support bc they're representing "our team."
Its kind of a sunken cost fallacy to keep supporting a team that won a championship decades ago when you realize lately they seem to be throwing a lot of games. Except with sports it is a team paid to represent a local city or state.
Politicians are humans like anyone else. There's good and bad ones and they're capable of corruption and change just like anyone else.
Black and white thinking is what got us here and what keeps dividing us as a country while individuals continue to profit from it.
So maybe we need some legislative action to push for caps on CEO salaries and number of CEO/administrative positions per hospital to receive any federal or state funding.
Why tf does one giant monopoly of hospitals need a CEO for each campus?!
I'm not saying we should be rasing pay for other employees at all. I'm saying the reason Medicaid is becoming unsustainable is because we have so many CEOs making insanely huge salaries like this.
The point of healthcare is to provide care to patients. Not to create hospital monopolies.
If Medicare is unsustainable that means healthcare cuts.
When you're looking for where you should be making healthcare cuts what makes the most logical sense to you?
At least having a discussion about how these administrative salaries and positions are actually justified?
Or
•Slash and burn policy eliminating doctors that were already accepting Medicaid
•Reducing care offered to patients so that the patients will then indeed become less healthy, rely on emergency services and require more costly care in the long run
•Claiming Medicaid is unsustainable bc "no doctors want to accept Medicaid patients."
If you abruptly eliminate all the doctors that do accept Medicaid and then claim you need to increase the Medicaid budget to incentivise doctors in order to get them to accept Medicaid patients, then yes, by default it becomes easy to make the argument that no doctors in your hospital "want to accept Medicaid."
References:
Landry announces $11M in savings: https://gov.louisiana.gov/news/4768
LA DOGE Secret Meeting with Guidehouse: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-created-group-meets-in-secret-to-cut-spending/article_920e929c-e32e-11ef-915a-dbb1b1826804.html
LA DOGE partners with LA Legislative Auditor: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landrys-louisiana-doge-to-work-with-auditors/article_9fae9dc4-f478-11ef-8d56-332511026662.html
LA Legislative Auditor says MCIP funds misspent by hospitals: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-health-department-failed-to-oversee-parts-of-state-medicaid-program-audit-says/article_c59da822-fdfb-11ef-8015-9f4118cb1f63.html
(3/26)Budget to LDH increasing $1.5B despite Landry's saving cuts. Surgeon General Abraham claims need to offer doctors more money to get them to accept Medicaid patients: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/26/louisiana-medicaid-set-to-grow-under-landry-even-as-d-c-republicans-may-force-cuts/
(3/27) Elon Musk's DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to LDH: https://www.wwno.org/public-health/2025-03-27/doge-website-shows-55m-in-cuts-to-louisiana-department-of-health
Louisiana faces $10M loss for mental health and substance use disorders after federal cuts: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-federal-cuts-health/article_c5a6715f-0c56-4ee7-b36b-1a26be86ace3.html
References:
Landry announces $11M in savings: https://gov.louisiana.gov/news/4768
LA DOGE Secret Meeting with Guidehouse: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-created-group-meets-in-secret-to-cut-spending/article_920e929c-e32e-11ef-915a-dbb1b1826804.html
LA DOGE partners with LA Legislative Auditor: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landrys-louisiana-doge-to-work-with-auditors/article_9fae9dc4-f478-11ef-8d56-332511026662.html
LA Legislative Auditor says MCIP funds misspent by hospitals: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-health-department-failed-to-oversee-parts-of-state-medicaid-program-audit-says/article_c59da822-fdfb-11ef-8015-9f4118cb1f63.html
(3/26)Budget to LDH increasing $1.5B despite Landry's saving cuts. Surgeon General Abraham claims need to offer doctors more money to get them to accept Medicaid patients: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/26/louisiana-medicaid-set-to-grow-under-landry-even-as-d-c-republicans-may-force-cuts/
(3/27) Elon Musk's DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to LDH: https://www.wwno.org/public-health/2025-03-27/doge-website-shows-55m-in-cuts-to-louisiana-department-of-health
Louisiana faces $10M loss for mental health and substance use disorders after federal cuts: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-federal-cuts-health/article_c5a6715f-0c56-4ee7-b36b-1a26be86ace3.html
What do you mean stretched out across all employees?
Lcmc is a "nonprofit" for tax related purposes and the CEO's salary is $2.2M!
The two main hospital chains are oschner and LCMC.
As of a few years ago I remembered the oschner CEO salary being way smaller than lcmc's CEO.
I just double checked and it looks like they had a leadership change 2 years ago and now oschner's CEO makes even more than lcmc's at $3.2M!
https://nonprofitlight.com/la/new-orleans/ochsner-health-system
Not only that, within oschner there are different CEOs across different campuses
https://news.ochsner.org/news-releases/david-callecod-named-ceo-of-ochsner-lsu-health
This is fucking insanity! It's very much a problem. People talking about Medicaid Cuts and more efficiency, but yeah let's have multiple CEOs for the same hospital within the same city.
The Louisiana department of health is blaming Medicaid being too expensive and unsustainable on patients being less healthy over recent years and requiring too much healthcare and doctors not wanting to take Medicaid patients because they get paid less.
Yet LCMC just got rid of several doctors who took Medicaid! Not a whole lot of logic there.
Is it really that people got less healthy over the last two years and required more care? Or is it that oschner changed leadership and tried to go for the corrupt model lcmc was already using and now it's breaking the system.
Hospital expenses are mainly going into the pockets of CEOs that shouldn't exist and this is being blamed on the doctors and patients.
We gotta make cuts, where do we start.
Hmm... Healthcare needs it's CEOs that's a given. No need to keep all those unnecessary doctors and patients around though
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