Outing Broward's Great Health Care Secret
Why the RAND SE Florida Hospital Study Died
Hint:
Forgive me, gentle reader, if you waited for the other shoe to fall.
Tuesday, I blogged how a controversial in-depth report by RAND researchers was suppressed by officials with Broward's two tax-funded hospital districts (Memorial Healthcare and Broward health) more than five years ago.
In closing, my Tuesday blog report promised to report exactly how and why the two health care mega-systems reacted to the RAND report the way vampires deal with the light of day.
But unfortunately, the threat of legal action* by a tax-paid lawyer with the North Broward Hospital District became the unfortunate topic of my Wednesday blog. (According to their lawyer, the District is prepared to sue my sagging old ass if I continue to posting the official “Broward Health” logo on my website -- which serves as further proof of how things are here on the western edge of the Devil's Triangle.).
However...
Some 180 pages long and sponsored by the South Florida Hospital Association, the suppressed RAND report focused on the use of local tax dollars to finance the cost of indigent hospital care in Southeastern Florida's three urban counties: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
So...
How and why did Broward's two mega health care hospital taxing districts prevent the South Florida Hospital Association from releasing a final draft of the RAND report?
Basically because the two RAND researchers had stumbled upon – and reported on – the Broward's Great Indigent Health Care Secret which is:
Thanks to an endless flow of local property tax dollars*, the two Districts reap serious profits by caring for the poor. (Plus additional millions from the state's Disproportionate Share Funds.)
All of which gives the two Districts a grossly unfair competitive advantage in their on-going battle with Broward's private hospitals.
Which, public policy-wise, really blows!
But don't take my word for it.
The sordid details are all there in my copy of the suppressed RAND report with the researchers startling conclusions – which I'll be happy to share with anyone who gives a flying pahtooty about the shocking inequities in Broward's two giant tax-funded health care systems. (My email is degrootj@bellsouth.net)
Stay tuned..
Hint:
Forgive me, gentle reader, if you waited for the other shoe to fall.
Tuesday, I blogged how a controversial in-depth report by RAND researchers was suppressed by officials with Broward's two tax-funded hospital districts (Memorial Healthcare and Broward health) more than five years ago.
In closing, my Tuesday blog report promised to report exactly how and why the two health care mega-systems reacted to the RAND report the way vampires deal with the light of day.
But unfortunately, the threat of legal action* by a tax-paid lawyer with the North Broward Hospital District became the unfortunate topic of my Wednesday blog. (According to their lawyer, the District is prepared to sue my sagging old ass if I continue to posting the official “Broward Health” logo on my website -- which serves as further proof of how things are here on the western edge of the Devil's Triangle.).
However...
Some 180 pages long and sponsored by the South Florida Hospital Association, the suppressed RAND report focused on the use of local tax dollars to finance the cost of indigent hospital care in Southeastern Florida's three urban counties: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
So...
How and why did Broward's two mega health care hospital taxing districts prevent the South Florida Hospital Association from releasing a final draft of the RAND report?
Basically because the two RAND researchers had stumbled upon – and reported on – the Broward's Great Indigent Health Care Secret which is:
Thanks to an endless flow of local property tax dollars*, the two Districts reap serious profits by caring for the poor. (Plus additional millions from the state's Disproportionate Share Funds.)
All of which gives the two Districts a grossly unfair competitive advantage in their on-going battle with Broward's private hospitals.
Which, public policy-wise, really blows!
But don't take my word for it.
The sordid details are all there in my copy of the suppressed RAND report with the researchers startling conclusions – which I'll be happy to share with anyone who gives a flying pahtooty about the shocking inequities in Broward's two giant tax-funded health care systems. (My email is degrootj@bellsouth.net)
Stay tuned..
Tomorrow: How the Districts' Secret Works
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