In this morning's NY Times, there is an editorial on the
Federal Government's Health website and its chaotic debut. Actually,
there are articles in every major newspaper this AM based on the President's
news conference yesterday. But, it was the Times editorial that got
me to thinking: If this had happened to hospitals across the US, would the feds
be as forgiving? My answer is "heck no"! There
would be immediate fines and penalties associated with the
delays. Our industry would be under an immediate and prolonged
attack until the problem was fixed. They would demand answers; there
would be no evasiveness, no deflecting of blame or finger pointing outside of
the health care industry. The bottom line is that it's nice to be
king; in this case, the Feds.
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