By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, May 15, 2006 at 7:00 AM
Back from the South. So what did I miss? Labels: PubDef_News
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7 Comments:
Elliot Davis confronted Jennifer Florida about the recall attempt. It was on Friday's news on Channel 2.
5/15/2006 11:10 AM
Check out the latest Biz Journal editorial. It tries to blame the BJC deal opposition on politics. No mention of the insider deals, conflicts of interest and ignoring community concerns.
Also, Friday's P-D article on BJC deal.
5/15/2006 11:41 AM
Insider deal? Going from $150,000 a year to $1.8 million a year on an amended lease sure doesn't sound like an insider deal to most folks.
5/15/2006 12:02 PM
The campaign to recall Jennifer Florida has a website. www.recallflorida.com
5/15/2006 12:51 PM
Last line of the BizJournal editorial:
"It's not how business is done, and health care in our community is very big business."
Ugh - how sickening. Health care is supposed to be a profession which people undertake because they CARE about the HEALTH of people! Not to make money!
Ah, I guess that's what we have to expect from the BJ. No perspective on whether health care should even be a business; just an acceptance that's how it is.
5/15/2006 5:15 PM
If Homer G. Phillips or City Hospital had been run more like a business, maybe they'd still be around. BJC and Tenet are for-profit, but even non-profits like SSM have to operate like a business. Yet despite being for-profit, BJC's network serves more uninsured patients than all other regional hospitals combined. Operated like a business, BJC can afford to serve so many uninsured, when it passes the costs onto paying customers.
5/16/2006 8:09 AM
If Homer G. Phillips was around in the age of $25 aspirin, they might still be around.
If Mayor Vince Schoemehl keep his campaign promises to black voters, they might still be around.
And if the city's leaders in the '70s and '80s valued keeping a black middle-class in the city, that hospital might still be around today.
5/18/2006 2:10 AM
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