re: #825 CapeCoddah

6 hospitals sue Massachusetts

There are budgetary problems all across the board during this recession and it is also affecting the health care budget there. Even that article indicates it as the reason:

Six community hospitals, squeezed by the economic downturn and the Massachusetts budget crunch, are set to file a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court this morning seeking millions of dollars from the state for unpaid health care services.

Same article also states:

Porten said the 212-bed hospital, where 71 percent of patients are covered by Medicaid or other public insurance, has been forced to lay off 88 employees over the past year.

Citing Holyoke’s high poverty rate, he said: “There’s not a lot of other places people here can go for care. Long term, we have to get a solution to our funding.’’

They can and must find a solution. Sacrificing the lives of those people who have nowhere else to go is not an option.