Five hospitals in Brooklyn are in severe financial distress: Interfaith Medical Center, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and Brooklyn Hospital Center.
OWS asked: Why did Gov. Cuomo appointed Stephen Berger, a Wall Street millionaire financier, to be in charge of restructuring health care in Brooklyn?
Among other things, Berger (as head of the workgroup) wants to shut down SUNY Downstate's inpatient services and move them to SUNY LICH in Cobble Hill. Thousands of central Brooklyn residents would lose health care services, including an Emergency Room, and more than 1,500 jobs would be lost.
Berger also stood in the way of the effort to include an emergency room at SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
Berger is recommending that New York change its laws to allow for-profit investors to invest in financially-distressed public hospitals.
Incidentally, the New York Times recently detailed the mismanagement and lavish life style of Wyckoff Hospital's chief executive and board members, who appear to be sucking Wyckoff dry before the place folds.
More about this issue at the Save Our Safety Net website.
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2 comments:
Why SHOULD residents of Brooklyn (the POOR) have any choice in their
healthcare. If they were REAL people, they would be RICH. Afterall, GOD has blessed this country, and if you aren't RICH, then you aren't BLESSED and you aren't really a person. Not a real person, like those who live
in the UES of Manhattan.
Let them eat cake.
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