California hospitals just killed a measure in Sacramento that would protect ER patients from surprise bills. The reason they did so was to protect their own revenues, writes columnist hiltzikm
The University of California regents are wrestling with a question that should have an easy answer: Should they approve an “affiliation” between UC San Francisco, one of the leading teaching hospitals in America, and Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital chain that openly discriminates against women and LGBTQ patients and requires its doctors to comply with religious directives, some of which run counter to medical science and ethical...
Hospital charges soared after a California regulation mandated that health plans pay for all ER visits. The hospitals won’t say so outright. “We are not getting into that, that is not our role,” Emerson-Shea told me. You can be forgiven for thinking that this resembles the line from the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer— “‘Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,’ says Wernher von Braun.
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