CSPAN2 After Words With Elisabeth Rosenthal July 8, 2017
Weve got to close that emergency room because not enough people come at night in the rural area. That is not why we keep Emergency Rooms open at night. We keep them open because people are sick and there might be an emergency but the logic of this is applied to hospitals, the kind of structuring of hospital care, we end up with a lot of weird decisions. Again and again people say to me i get all these requests asking for money and Hospital Executives thing medicare doesnt pay them enough, medicaid doesnt pay them enough. The first thing i say is walk into the lobby of your local hospital and t...