This will not improve care; it will syphon funds to Penn. There is no “weakness” in our healthcare system and LGH is a cash cow. Penn gets LGH, the community loses autonomy, and the LGH leadership gets promises of golden parachutes for selling out a public entity.
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Hospitals Are Robbing Us Blind
The second path is to rely on antitrust enforcement to crack down on hospital mergers and acquisitions and, more importantly in the long run, to make it easier for new medical providers to enter the business and to compete with hospitals.
Mourn the death of seven children, but also place responsibility
The seven children were indeed innocent, but Sassoon was ‘guilty’ for failing to place smoke detectors in the kitchen and above the stairs and, if he or his wife were smokers, in their bedroom.
Henry A. Kissinger: The world will miss Lee Kuan Yew
But great men become such through visions beyond material calculations. Lee defied conventional wisdom by opting for statehood. The choice reflected a deep faith in the virtues of his people.
LETTER: Montgomery County hatchet job on Kathleen Kane
If a prosecutor can’t get a grand jury to go his way, he should find another job. It’s typical Pennsylvania politics at work and the Inquirer is buying into it to sell papers.
State lawmakers shouldn’t check-out their support for school libraries: Debra Kachel
This is just one more in a series of indicators that school libraries have been severed from education in the minds of decision makers. This is a mistake. It results in poorer readers and writers and that is not just opinion.
5 years later, ‘Obamacare’ critics can’t believe their lying eyes
Conservatives were absolutely convinced that private insurers would refuse to participate in the ACA’s exchange marketplaces, repeating the prediction over and over again. This also proved to be the opposite of the truth, as insurance companies have been eager to compete for Americans’ business.
“LGH/Penn merger: Questions, but no answers yet” (or until deal is done, if then!)
Although unable to pry information out of LGH, the article did provide important information from other sources.
Starbucks ends writing about race on cups
Despite the early difficulties, Starbucks plans to move forward with “a number of planned Race Together activities in the weeks and months to come,” Schultz said in the letter.
Finally, after the best opportunities have been lost, Gray and Patterson see the light
“Under eminent domain, the city would pay fair market value for the property and lien holders would then be paid.”
Can Washington’s Gift Economy in Marijuana Work?
[Professor Mark] Kleiman warns that full-scale commercial legalization comes with costs of its own. The main risk is that marijuana businesses will — as alcohol and tobacco companies did — successfully market their products to heavy users who would be better off using less, and that they will resist regulations that discourage problem use.
Money for nothing [to PA Supreme Court Justice]
Its rules require only that clients be advised of and not object to referral fees, while the share each lawyer receives need not be disclosed. Nor does the state require lawyers receiving fees to perform any work or assume any responsibility
LETTER: Sounds like Lancaster General Health
California tax authorities have stripped Blue Shield of California, the state’s third largest insurer, of its tax-exempt status in California and ordered the firm to file returns dating to 2013, potentially costing the company tens of millions of dollars.
KEISLING: The moral and ethical decline of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Part 3
It turns out, according to the Inquirer’s own reporting (if you can trust it), this is not the only time that Frank Fina has gone running to the same grand jury Judge Carpenter with suspicious requests which serve to help Fina out of a serious problem.