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Comment on: End of an era for the Celtics? - Sports - The Boston Globe
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yeah. making $52/hour with 9 weeks vacation to oversee empty beds is a tough gig. I'd strike too. How many people in Quincy make more $$ than the nurses? Less than 1% I bet. more »
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Comment on: Nurses at Quincy Medical Center planning one-day strike - Boston.com
If there were too many maternity services already on the south shore, why did DPH approve the new maternity unit last month? That's why they call it a determination of need. Because there's a need.
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If you live in Jordan's area your rates are about to skyrocket- that's what happens when a high priced downtown academic center takes over a community hospital and then strikes a deal with the physici more »
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Comment on: Steward eliminates security staff at 4 hospitals, hires outside company - - Boston.com
Agree. State Street lays off 600 people and gets a couple of paragraphs. Must be humiliating to be scooped by the Fall River Herald more »
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So Ward Cleaver breaks his silence. He should just retire from private life. He is irrelevant and he diminishes his already tainted brand by waving his arms around and saying "I'm still here". more »
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Comment on: Presidentâs exit stirs fears on hospitalâs fate - Business - The Boston Globe
Apart from investing in spell check, Affer should revisit high school arithmetic. Today's Globe article cited that Walczak presided over a 20 million dollar loss in one year while Steward had invested more »
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Comment on: Big savings for small business in new, innovative health plans - Editorials - The Boston Globe
aferr is nothing if not tedious. Would be interesting to see examples of his johhny-one-note contention that for profit health care systems (e.g. Vanguard, HCA etc)skim patients and dump high cost cas more »
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Comment on: Steward enlarges its footprint in Mass. - Business - The Boston Globe
From what regulation does "Null" think Steward is exempt? What does he propose be regulated that is not already regulated? Do we honestly need MORE regulation in our health care system? On what planet more »
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Comment on: Stewardâs doctor deal questioned - Business - The Boston Globe
"Null" is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts. To wit: 65 % of all Steward patients are on either Medicare or Medecaid- not commercially insured patients. Maybe he would have been happy more »
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Comment on: 'Steward snatches 150 doctors affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess physicians group'
Us usual "Aferr" is not going to be distracted by the facts. 70% of the care delivered in Steward hospitals is public pay Medicaid or Medicare. Medicaid just cut their rates by 1%. On what planet are more »
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Comment on: How to be Stewardâs steward - The Boston Globe
From what I can tell Cerberus is more than living up to its deal-the average nurse at St Elizabeth's makes $140,000 per year and gets 9 weeks off.Before overtime. The existing pension agreement has St more »
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Comment on: 'Steward stirs deja vu'
"Cleareyed" is bleary-eyed. Does anyone over the IQ of 50 think that the AG would allow Partners to acquire/merge with Steward. Can you say "anti-trust"? Also as for the "prime" real estate play. Do y more »
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Comment on: 'Caritas owner widens its aims'
Pual Levy's irrelevance is getting tedious. he obviously can't let go even though his platform was taken away by his board. He should take his taxpayer funded millions and just go away instead of wavi more »
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Comment on: 'How Caritas Christi CEO Ralph de la Torre's Wall Street gamble will rock main street health care'
Paul Levy's observations are as irrelevant as he is to the current health care environment. He's like the Japanese soldiars who were still fighting the allies on remote Pacific islands in 1946. it's o more »
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Comment on: AGâs limits on Caritas deal donât go far enough - The Boston Globe
Maybe if the Globe would hire real editorial writers instead of fresh off the boat journalism grads they'd get the facts right like the AG continuing oversight of the deal as a condition for approval. more »
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Comment on: 'The Caritas sale —
Only a career bureaucrat like Mr. Shannon would characterize a 8 month, 6 major community public hearing process, daily coverage in the Globe, dozens of community meetings etc process as trying to "qu more »
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Comment on: 'Coalition urges further scrutiny of Caritas sale'
Why is the same well heeled competitors asking for the delay of this deal news? This story has been run time after time with no new information. Also, where was HealthCare for All two years ago when C more »
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Comment on: 'Whistle up a watchdog'
Gee, hospitals are worried about competition? Hasn't the Globe been beating this anti-Partners drum for two years? LGH worried that their gravy train is over? Maybe the Globe should assign someone who more »
Meanwhile, back on planet earth. I have had floor seats for the Knicks for 10 years- they are a pathetic franchise and Melo is their perfect poster boy. I mean the Knicks have retired Dick Barnett's n more »