PA Hospitals: Broker Than You!
Listen, I don’t know what to tell you, but if you’re planning on needing surgery or dying or something, you may wanna find another, richer state to do it in — or just get an X-acto knife, some pills and DIY that shit — because PA hospitals are eating mac and cheese for every meal just like you are:
• 64 percent of 118 Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems that responded (including 45 from the Philadelphia region) said they are delaying or reconsidering the purchase or upgrading of clinical and health information technology and equipment;
• 54 percent are reconsidering or postponing renovation or building of new outpatient facilities;
• 48 percent are reconsidering or postponing renovation or upgrading of inpatient facilities;
• 45 percent increased expenses in accessing capital;
• 15 percent have experienced difficulty in refinancing debt; and
• 15 percent have not been able to issue bonds.
Business is way down on the fixing-up-patients side, too: Elective procedures are way down, and people just flat out not paying their medical bills is way up. So… this “Santaria” thing. Does that, like, work?
PBJ: Can I Get One Rib?
