Seiu Goes To The Ballot To Modify Infirmary Rates
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Somewhat novel to the issue, the SEIU has decided that it is unfair for non-Partners hospitals to instruct paid less than those affiliated alongside Partners Healthcare System. Priyanka Dayal McKluskey report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a reports inwards the Boston Globe that the wedlock "is pushing a ballot maiden that would divert millions of dollars from Partners HealthCare to lower-paid competitors inwards an essay to boost community hospitals as well as save wedlock jobs."
My readers know that I am sympathetic to the stimulate of equalizing insurance payments to the hospitals as well as physicians inwards the state. Now, they are gear upwards mainly on the footing of marketplace power, something reverse to Earth good. Some of us accept been talking close this lawsuit for over a decade.
But why is the wedlock to a greater extent than lately interested inwards the topic?
My hypothesis is that they in conclusion realized that the stated describe of piece of work organisation strategy of Steward Health Care System to hold upwards the low-cost provider competing alongside Partners only doesn't concur water. Steward has shown no mightiness to attract patients from the bigger system. The entirely thing that "lower costs"--read "lower rates"--has gotten the organisation is lower revenues as well as poorer earnings.
Years ago, the Steward CEO got the back upwards of the SEIU when the Caritas Christi organisation was to hold upwards sold to Cerberus. Remember report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a reported on May 13, 2013:
An odd alliance led yesteryear the state’s fastest-growing wellness assist companionship as well as its largest wellness assist wedlock volition press for higher payments to community as well as security cyberspace hospitals, proverb Massachusetts faces a widening gulf betwixt the character of assist inwards affluent as well as low-income areas.
The group, the Massachusetts Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League, is beingness launched Th yesteryear Steward Health Care System, a for-profit cluster of community hospitals, as well as Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents close 47,000 workers inwards the state.
The follow-up was reported on March 14, 2014, yesteryear Rachel Zimmerman on Commonhealth:
A report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a partnership betwixt the for-profit Steward Health Care System as well as the union, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East — finds that disparities inwards infirmary costs as well as financing across the seat down are driving “a cruel cycle” of inequality inwards wellness care.
It's difficult to hold upwards sympathetic to the fiscal concerns of a wedlock that spent millions of dollars on a corporate crusade to disparage my onetime hospital. (More on that storey here.)
It's likewise difficult to uncovering sympathy for a wedlock that, fifty-fifty inwards 2014, report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a supported the gubernatorial candidacy of report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a the onetime Attorney General who affirmatively acted to elevate Partner's marketplace power.
And it's difficult to hold upwards sympathetic to a infirmary organisation owned yesteryear a somebody equity firm.
But the lawsuit raised inwards the ballot suggestion is a existent one, as well as i that was aggravated--not reduced--by report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a state legislation inwards 2012.
Referenda, equally noted yesteryear the seat down infirmary association's executive vice president inwards McCluskey's story, are non the best agency to resolve complicated policy issues. Instead, it's fourth dimension for the legislature to revisit the matter.
My readers know that I am sympathetic to the stimulate of equalizing insurance payments to the hospitals as well as physicians inwards the state. Now, they are gear upwards mainly on the footing of marketplace power, something reverse to Earth good. Some of us accept been talking close this lawsuit for over a decade.
But why is the wedlock to a greater extent than lately interested inwards the topic?
My hypothesis is that they in conclusion realized that the stated describe of piece of work organisation strategy of Steward Health Care System to hold upwards the low-cost provider competing alongside Partners only doesn't concur water. Steward has shown no mightiness to attract patients from the bigger system. The entirely thing that "lower costs"--read "lower rates"--has gotten the organisation is lower revenues as well as poorer earnings.
Years ago, the Steward CEO got the back upwards of the SEIU when the Caritas Christi organisation was to hold upwards sold to Cerberus. Remember report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a reported on May 13, 2013:
An odd alliance led yesteryear the state’s fastest-growing wellness assist companionship as well as its largest wellness assist wedlock volition press for higher payments to community as well as security cyberspace hospitals, proverb Massachusetts faces a widening gulf betwixt the character of assist inwards affluent as well as low-income areas.
The group, the Massachusetts Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League, is beingness launched Th yesteryear Steward Health Care System, a for-profit cluster of community hospitals, as well as Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents close 47,000 workers inwards the state.
The follow-up was reported on March 14, 2014, yesteryear Rachel Zimmerman on Commonhealth:
A report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a partnership betwixt the for-profit Steward Health Care System as well as the union, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East — finds that disparities inwards infirmary costs as well as financing across the seat down are driving “a cruel cycle” of inequality inwards wellness care.
It's difficult to hold upwards sympathetic to the fiscal concerns of a wedlock that spent millions of dollars on a corporate crusade to disparage my onetime hospital. (More on that storey here.)
It's likewise difficult to uncovering sympathy for a wedlock that, fifty-fifty inwards 2014, report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a supported the gubernatorial candidacy of report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a the onetime Attorney General who affirmatively acted to elevate Partner's marketplace power.
And it's difficult to hold upwards sympathetic to a infirmary organisation owned yesteryear a somebody equity firm.
But the lawsuit raised inwards the ballot suggestion is a existent one, as well as i that was aggravated--not reduced--by report released today yesteryear the Healthcare Equality as well as Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a state legislation inwards 2012.
Referenda, equally noted yesteryear the seat down infirmary association's executive vice president inwards McCluskey's story, are non the best agency to resolve complicated policy issues. Instead, it's fourth dimension for the legislature to revisit the matter.