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Old 02-27-2013, 11:42 AM
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has it been 4+ years since the expansion of TV hospital?
Let's assume it is (more or less)...that means the population has increased more than 25% since then (The population has doubled since we built our home in 2004). Whatever the exact number, it is growing evry month by around 200 families per month.

Add to the current "load" on the hosptals the impending addition of Obamacare and the millions more eligible for care on existing systems....like TV hospital....and the reality will become increasing more obvious that today's medical care facilites, systems and care givers will go from inadequate to something worse.

And as has been said in the past there will become a new norm of care that will be less acceptable than we have today. It is upon us.

Those of us who can afford it will pay more to keep the level of care in the future the same as we have today. And we will also go to facilities that meet our expectations.....like some of us do now.

There is no doubt or mystery about the inaduacy/lack of capacity of TV hospital today....they are behind the growth curve.....without the soon to be increase of the uninsured impact + the balance of the new population to come as build out approaches.

As long as medical care objectives are based on profit and loss instead of patient care, being behind the growth curve assures all beds full and all other operations functioning (or better said trying to function) above capacity....hence you will wait.....longer for attention now and in the future.

btk