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The media
and politicians are looking for a fall-guy for the so called shortage of
medical facilities and resources during the CoronaVirus Pandemic.
That’s very
important because it’s an election year and the masses are calling for blood
and heads; some are even building new gallows (solid plan not based on
injection drugs or electricity and firing-squad would only add to the gun
violence data).
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Here in SW
Virginia and adjacent Appalachia country there
has been a massive reduction in medical facilities as administered by:
Medical Facility
Certificate-of-Public-Need (CON) Laws.
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Reflections
on this process include:
Lee County picks Ballad to reopen its hospital
“I don’t
know how many rural hospitals have closed — 70 or 80 or maybe more in the last
few years. I believe we will be the only one that has reopened,” Montgomery said.
“The University of North Carolina’s
Cecil G. Sheps Center has tracked 95 closings since
2010. Some of the former hospitals now offer emergency or urgent care, or
outpatient services.”
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It appears
that CONs is a country-wide process based on national health programs like
ObamaCare and Medicare; therefore:
It’s Not
clear who is really ‘responsible’ for medical facility availability and
capacity but it looks like a State Committee based on Business As Usual case
loads and clearly not peak epidemics no less pandemic crisis.
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So, Let’s
hang the CON committees – wouldn’t want to let a crisis go to waste and someone
needs hangin!
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The ‘urgent’ reaction in NY to ramp-up medical facilities (including army field hospitals) is testament to the serious short-falls highlighted by this pandemic:
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The ‘urgent’ reaction in NY to ramp-up medical facilities (including army field hospitals) is testament to the serious short-falls highlighted by this pandemic:
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