05-21-2015, 06:10 PM
Hospitals are having problems all over. The reason is some people use emergency since they don't have health care or the money to pay for it, and all things like gunshots, stabbings, cliff jumping, domestic beating, are admitted to emergency without payment ability required. Most can't pay. The hospital has to pass on the costs to patients with health insurance, so that is why there is $40 aspirin and $100 bandages. This leads to huge hospital costs that even the insured can't pay their bills after the insurance coverage. Bankruptcy due to medical care is the number one reason for bankruptcy now.
This is terrible for that many people to be facing layoffs. Hilo Medical Center was getting good reviews for their improvements the past few years. It used to be known in the local community as the place where you went to die. Layoffs like this are just another reason more people won't be able to stay in Hawaii. Civil Beat has been running a series of articles from people that wanted to live in Hawaii but ultimately had to go back to the mainland. If the anti-government and anti-technology social media has its way, that is going to become much more common.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
This is terrible for that many people to be facing layoffs. Hilo Medical Center was getting good reviews for their improvements the past few years. It used to be known in the local community as the place where you went to die. Layoffs like this are just another reason more people won't be able to stay in Hawaii. Civil Beat has been running a series of articles from people that wanted to live in Hawaii but ultimately had to go back to the mainland. If the anti-government and anti-technology social media has its way, that is going to become much more common.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*