[LINK] The Hospital Committee

[David Lochrin]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 08:42, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> It's interesting to know that Ears knows who might be interested.  It
> makes you wonder if he has got his next career move already lined up...

   I'm sorry Howard, I shouldn't have been quite so dead-pan about the entirely fictional situation!

   And as you pointed out in your Letter to the Editor:

> Notice that there is no mention of the federal government increasing 
> funding to allow those boards to manage their hospitals within their 
> budgets, and add the fact that if the states are removed from the loop 
> then there is the likelihood of that funding source drying up, leaving 
> the local management board with the total financial burden.

   This is the core of the problem.  Given the dedication with which the Howard Government arranges flows of public money to support Big Business, I have no doubt that this proposal is a first, cleverly disguised step towards an American public "health" "system".

David