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t1_j1dhfnr wrote

Well I'm guessing because they don't have policies this egregious.

The article itself mentions that Mt. Sinai and Weill Cornell "offer luxury accommodations and personal concierge services to patients who can afford them," so it's not like they're being ignored — but prioritizing rich people for emergency treatment seems like it may be unique to NYU.

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t1_j1b56ez wrote

From the article:

>In late 2019, doctors were racing to rescue a patient in cardiac arrest. One pushed the gurney toward one of the private rooms meant for life-or-death emergencies. Another sat atop the unconscious patient, performing chest compressions. When they arrived at the room, they could not enter — a V.I.P. occupied it. The patient survived, but two workers who witnessed the episode said the delay could have been deadly.

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t1_ixcmt9h wrote

Why is everyone being so unforgiving to this guy?

Should you not be allowed to run a bar in NYC if you're not maximally "productive"? Isn't the point of this article that regular, neighborhood bars should be given the support they need to survive even if they're not some perfectly efficient business operation?

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t1_ivxzem7 wrote

> Nadler's seat had a thin line snaking through Brooklyn

His district looked like that even before the recent redistricting. That wasn't even a partisan gerrymander, it was a way of linking Jewish communities on the UWS and Brooklyn.

The Dems' map was plenty greedy, but so were dozens of other maps across the country that the Republicans drew for themselves. Nearly all of those were allowed to stand, yet Cuomo's judges struck down the New York one — it's the asymmetry that's deeply unfair.

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t1_iv0p4fd wrote

No, but they could cut service and staffing to the point that it's no longer a reliable means of transportation, which would seriously fuck up the lives of millions of New Yorkers.

I get the impulse to want to "punish" the MTA for its mismanagement by reducing funding, but that won't actually fix anything — it'll just make all of our lives miserable.

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