The city’s public hospital system, the largest in the nation, is facing a fiscal crisis because New York State is threatening to cut its financing for the care of poor patients at a time when the number of uninsured patients has soared, city officials said Sunday.
The cuts, included in Gov. David A. Paterson’s executive budget proposal, could drain from the public hospitals up to $370 million, much of it in federal financing, and shift the money to programs in voluntary, or private, hospitals, the city officials said.
Within this article, the folks running the public hospital system noted that they are beginning to have the same experience as New York City's Catholic Hospital system which is "near bankruptcy and struggling to avoid shutting down."
Now, if this isn't a call for health care reform, what is? Also, in the short-run, why can't some of the private hospitals that are "making it" share their wealth? Ooops, that's just sooooo not capitalism at its best....