David Catron is riled up, responding to the recent Slate piece: “The authors of this disgraceful piece of agitprop would have their readers believe that the people who run hospitals deliberately allow people to languish in their ERs for financial gain. The suggestion is not merely slanderous. It is absurd on its face.
I have worked in hospital finance (at institutions large and small) for more than two decades and have never met an administrator or finance person (not one) to whom such an idea would even occur. Where I have worked, suggesting such a policy would get you fired.”
