Reply #50: How ironic, that the local community hospital is being closed as of noon today!

[hedgehog]

The Berger Commission decided that having too many hospital beds was running up health care costs in New York, so the smaller hospitals had to go. Now, if anyone here gets sick, they will drive 10 miles north to Oswego or 30 miles south to Syracuse to find an ER, and in the process possibly spread an infection to a new community.


I'm not saying that the hospital here should have remained the same as it always was, but I think our entire health care system has to be reexamined and rebuilt from the ground up. As it stands now, sick people end up in the ER spreading their illness. I think most measles outbreaks get traced back to the Emergency Room.