This won’t stop the building of new facilities that don’t fit what people need, it won’t make a more equitable health care environment at all. It will just make the expense of running hospitals more stringent. What people also miss here is that UPMC operates hospitals that take people without insurance, which operate on huge losses. Tightening their bottom line is going to mean these are some of the first hospitals to close, and others are likely to follow for a system that was not setup for this kind of tax burden.

Having more hospitals isn’t the best thing but for some rural areas it is absolutely necessary.

UPMC pays taxes on their health insurance division. They have two different entities, one that is non-profit hospitals, and the other is a good old fashioned health insurance company that guts you. The latter pays taxes.

People here will bite off their nose to spite their face just to stick it to UPMC because UPMC sucks. But all of these decisions would affect AHN and any other health provider.

If people think health care is expensive, wait until hospitals have to shift costs they would lose from other areas.

Gainey isn’t the first to try this and it won’t go the way he plans because it’s a bad idea

What about AHN?

I know, prison health care is bananas

Right, thank you.

Good job completely misunderstanding my point

Yes, they are. But what do you think will happen in the future if a republican president appoints conservative judges are vetted to rolling back voting rights? This matters, regardless of the outcome.

Right now with the current court appointed judges…

It does matter, because they absolutely will try this when their votes potentially do shift the election.

I can’t speak to that personally but Biff’s character in BttF2 is

It has to be edited, right?