Not enough hospital beds
in New Hampshire?
Blame needless regulations
Union Leader [Manchester, NH],
by
Greg Moore
Original Article
Posted By: NHChemist,
3/22/2020 8:22:02 PM
ACROSS the country, state leaders have raised the alarm over the lack of enough beds should the COVID-19 pandemic create a surge in serious and critical cases. They are concerned that they simply won’t have enough hospital beds to care for ill patients and are taking drastic steps to “flatten the curve” – spreading out the timeline of the disease so that the health care system can manage the influx of new cases. This is just as true in New Hampshire as across the country. However, the prime reason we don’t have more hospital beds is not a lack of demand, but government regulation.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
panther361 3/22/2020 8:31:56 PM (No. 354618)
Many of the eastern states as in my state of california, are dealing with a giant bite in the arse compliments of the insane and shortsidedness of "I know better than you" liberal democrats. I look forward to a giant pox on their side of the aisle soon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
scottj 3/22/2020 8:33:04 PM (No. 354619)
Democrats seem to be at the root of every problem we have.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rob_NC 3/22/2020 8:51:21 PM (No. 354629)
Well if the libs have their way...let the sick and infirmed die...makes room for the rest
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
John C 3/22/2020 8:52:26 PM (No. 354631)
Pelosi indicates the GOP is rushing her and she sees no need.
Probably needs time to stuff bill with pork and abortion support.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
columba 3/22/2020 9:17:13 PM (No. 354640)
Why is it that the Media NEVER looks for a solution but only whom to blame?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/22/2020 9:30:55 PM (No. 354646)
Health systems planning and control took off during the 4 years of Jimmy carter's presidency, with dimocrats controlling all three branches of government. and like other government systemsa, once it is put in place, it grows onb its own and sustains itself.
In the 1990s, Lady Lucifer aka Hillary and Dirty Donna Shalala at HHS came up with Hillarycare. It did not become law, but it scared the dickens out of the health care industry. and it set off the consolidation of many hospital systems, and the closing of some rural hospitals.
Then Barack Obola put the finishing bullet into health care. Mega-hospitals bought out physician practices, turning the physicians into employees.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) bought out hospitals and physicians in western Pa, Geisinger Medical center did the same in central Pa.
Things have never been the same.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
curious1 3/22/2020 9:38:36 PM (No. 354648)
#5, because they are democrats.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/22/2020 9:53:02 PM (No. 354652)
Great insight and info #6. Most will never know. Politics is only half of it. It's hospitals who direct the politicians to do their bidding. And like Education - Teacher unions and the arc of educrats is not the proper teaching of children into adults. It's brainwashing and union jobs and bureaucracy. Big medicine follows suit - it's not about making sick people well. Were things not better when hospitals were run by the charitables of churches?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 3/22/2020 10:00:48 PM (No. 354654)
Come to Tulsa. We have hospitals all over the place, and they never stop building!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 3/23/2020 12:11:05 AM (No. 354719)
One hospital in an area which has been growing like crazy. Instead of building or adding on to a wing for more beds, especially PRIVATE rooms, they went with a wing where tests and some specialties are located; oh, an a large wing with a pool and other pt equipment.
I have experience of hospital bed shortages in a normal flu season. So they spruced up the emergency department and added facilities where you can get a nice colonoscopy. But just don't look to get a private room (or possibly even a two-bed room if things get really bad), when you're in rough shape and only a curtain separates the beds, and everything docs say to their patients I can hear, too (so much for HIPAA) . Forget about enough beds in this hospital, if you're lucky, you won't have to stay on a gurney in a hallway, or, they might ship you to another hospital further away.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/23/2020 1:27:46 AM (No. 354757)
The same thing happened here with two new hospitals when the Obama-Biden Administration used federal regulations to limit the number of beds that could be created, maintained, and used in each of the new hospitals.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/23/2020 2:00:40 AM (No. 354762)
If there is an upside to this virus, it might be that it shines a light on, and maybe helps give us back good government instead of the racket it's being run like now.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/23/2020 9:18:31 AM (No. 354944)
Can't Canada pick up the excess in their vaunted healthcare system?
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Oh, gosh...... drive down to Massachusetts and find a bed there then.
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