This isn't solely about $$$, this is also about PROFITS before SERVICE!
Recent experience indicates that too many employees are under-qualified, facilities short-staffed and much else. The quality of care suffers for the BOTTOM LINE!
Please add your name and speak out!
Compass should have taught us the 'FOR PROFIT' was a mistake!
Block the Partners deal
donberwick
| Tue, Jul 15, 2014 8:41 AM EST
An interesting development. - promoted by david
The Attorney General’s settlement allowing Partners Healthcare to acquire
South Shore Hospital and two North Shore community hospitals is a great and
lasting disservice to the future of high quality, affordable health care in
Massachusetts. Facing an opportunity to stand up for patients, business,
laborers, and communities, Martha Coakley did not just blink; she closed her
eyes.
Today I’m launching a petition asking Judge Janet Sanders to block the deal.
Partners is an important and revered health care leader, but it is also a behemoth, already able to dictate prices and raise costs due to its overwhelming dominance in the market. The Massachusetts Health Care Commission, which is charged to oversee and report in progress toward better and more affordable care, recommended against Partners’ acquisition of both South Shore and Hallmark, but the Attorney General pushed it through without the benefit of truly open and pubic scrutiny.
This agreement will assure continuing high prices for the Partners system. Patients and families will have less choice, constructive competition among providers will decrease, and high health care costs for workers and businesses will continue to drain their resources. Job losses are inevitable, since Massachusetts’ high health care costs are one of the most important reasons that businesses cite for leaving the state, for decreasing their growth, and for not coming to Massachusetts in the first place.
Small businesses, especially, suffer from those costs.
Attorney General Coakley should have held the line and insisted that Partners do what an organization of its stature and excellence can do: lead progress in Massachusetts toward better care and lower cost at the same time. Instead, she chiseled the status quo in stone.
Now Massachusetts needs Judge Sanders to block the deal. Please add your voice.
Today I’m launching a petition asking Judge Janet Sanders to block the deal.
Partners is an important and revered health care leader, but it is also a behemoth, already able to dictate prices and raise costs due to its overwhelming dominance in the market. The Massachusetts Health Care Commission, which is charged to oversee and report in progress toward better and more affordable care, recommended against Partners’ acquisition of both South Shore and Hallmark, but the Attorney General pushed it through without the benefit of truly open and pubic scrutiny.
This agreement will assure continuing high prices for the Partners system. Patients and families will have less choice, constructive competition among providers will decrease, and high health care costs for workers and businesses will continue to drain their resources. Job losses are inevitable, since Massachusetts’ high health care costs are one of the most important reasons that businesses cite for leaving the state, for decreasing their growth, and for not coming to Massachusetts in the first place.
Small businesses, especially, suffer from those costs.
Attorney General Coakley should have held the line and insisted that Partners do what an organization of its stature and excellence can do: lead progress in Massachusetts toward better care and lower cost at the same time. Instead, she chiseled the status quo in stone.
Now Massachusetts needs Judge Sanders to block the deal. Please add your voice.
In this decision, Martha Coakley has failed to stand up for the real
interests of our Commonwealth. We should expect more diligence and backbone from
an Attorney General, and, even more, from one who would be Governor.
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Leadership often requires tough decisions. But when that decision is between standing up for the people of Massachusetts or serving the narrow interests of big corporations, the choice should be easy. At least it is for me.
Unfortunately, Attorney General Martha Coakley chose wrong.
After facilitating closed-door negotiations, Coakley approved the Partners HealthCare merger and acquisition, a decision that will raise health care costs for people around the Commonwealth and reduce choices for patients and families.
The Partners decision offered a chance to insist on changes that could secure both better care and lower cost for us all. That's not what happened. Martha Coakley didn’t just blink, she closed her eyes. Will you sign this petition and ask the courts to block this deal?
Skyrocketing health care costs hurt families, burden businesses, and drain resources from our state budget.
Forty-two percent of the state budget is spent on health care. Containing health care costs through improvements in our care system would allow Massachusetts to invest those resources in our education system, cutting-edge energy innovation, or added security for those who need it most.
In this deal, Martha Coakley failed to deliver. Join me and sign this petition to get us back on the right track.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/block-the-partners-deal
Thanks,
Don
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