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Did you see this ? Illegal Aliens forcing County and private hospital officials to close? County officials and executives from nine hospitals adversely affected by recent emergency room closures will make a plea for more money Thursday to a state commission that oversees Medi-Cal reimbursement rates. The nine private hospitals have been losing millions of dollars due to the influx of uninsured patients and those covered by Medi-Cal, which has the lowest reimbursement rate for services in the country. County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance has also been affected by the closure. "We don't have the luxury of failing," said Jim Lott, executive director of the Hospital Association of Southern California, a trade organization that is spearheading Thursday's meeting. "If we see even one of these hospitals close, it will have a dramatic ripple effect on the whole health system. It would make a horrible situation even worse." The August closure of the 48-bed emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Willowbrook was the tipping point of a long-simmering problem, Lott said. Four other hospitals or emergency rooms have closed in the last five years, forcing patients in some of the poorest areas near Hawthorne, Gardena and El Segundo into already-crowded hospitals that have had to absorb about 100,000 additional emergency room visits each year. Centinela Freeman Memorial Health System based in Inglewood, along with eight other private hospitals identified by the county, have suffered serious financial repercussions. Some are considering closing their emergency rooms as early as next year, officials say. http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/10409257.html

What do you think Financial woes jeopardize area hospitals (Los Angeles) ? Nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties, accounting for up to 15% of beds in the region, are in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure, according to hospital administrators, industry experts and state data. The troublesome development follows the closure of community clinics and hospitals in recent years that has left the healthcare system seriously overburdened. If even a few other hospitals close or reduce costly critical-care services, it could mean longer ambulance rides to hospitals, additional delays in emergency rooms and less access to care, especially for poor and uninsured people. Among the hospitals in poor financial health, according to industry analysts, are Downey Regional Medical Center, Centinela Freeman Health System in Inglewood, Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, Century City Doctors Hospital and four Orange County hospitals owned by Santa Ana-based Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. including Chapman Medical Center in Orange and Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, one of three trauma centers in the county. In interviews, senior executives at Centinela and Downey said they were considering closing their emergency rooms. Downey's chief operating officer, Rob Fuller, added that his hospital could close entirely as early as next year if its financial picture didn't improve soon. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-hospitals23sep23,0,1253335.story?coll=la-home-center

should people who are depressed, anxious or have ocd ever be forced to have treatments that are drastic? like surgeries and drugs etc Please read this article which is fascinating about lobotomies and give your opinion. http://www.bruiseduk.com/lobotomy.htm It was mainly depressed people who got this as it did not help schizophrenics. As a person with severe depression and an high IQ, I find it horrible thinking of the lives they maimed after reading a book called "my lobotomy" written in his 50s by a man who was a 12 year old victim of his stepmother's hatred and Dr Freeman and his stepmother and given a lobotomy which destroyed his life. I could see maybe forcing a dangerous schizophrenic who refuses to take drugs in rare instances but someone with depression, ocd..this effects them more than others..they are not generally potentially dangerous. some people whose relatives lives were utterly ruined and destroyed after lobotomy are outraged that the person originating it was given a Nobel prize and want t rescinded which is being refused on the grounds of its historical time period Should the prize be rescinded in your opinion? Is this not the least they can do fro taking people's mothers and fathers etc away from them essentially. Also will history once day find these psychiatric drugs are brain damaging and see this era as one we will look back with on regret as we do that era? Why are alternative practitioners called quacks when allopaths are never called quacks nor does the medical field often have to answer for their failures. Meanwhile we are their willing guinea pigs. I was once told by a lawyer when a surgeon harmed me permanently that they rarely take medical cases as they are rarely won unless it is most horrible, obvious and tragic, so they routinely get away with maiming, harming and yes even killing people--about 200,000 per year in the USA. How many people must be harmed before something is done? How long must it take until we are allowed more medical choice in this country? I have read the books of Peter Breggen who talks of the dangers of these modern day antidepressants and various brain drugs. I tried them for 14 years (ssri antidepressants) and was suicidal intensely nearly the whole time. As soon as I quit and they got out of my system, all suicidal ideation left even though my clinical depression and problems continued. they did not know or tell us off the many reports of people becoming suicidal or homicidal and the increase in suicides in people on these antidepressants. I read they causes permanent damage to neurotransmitter receptor sites. are these psychiatrists really in a postilion to drug the nation? Could they not be wrong like lobotomy practitioners were? Why is electric shock therapy still used? Does the misery they cause mean nothing and how many committed suicide due to the effects of antidepressant drugs in the 20 years it took for the fda to put a back box warning on the ssri drugs warning us one could become more depressed and suicidal. What do you think of Dr Freeman who really got the horror of lobotomy going and was the one who destroyed 12 year old Dully's life and Rose Kennedy's doing things like doing shows where he plunged 2 icepicks into the person's eye sockets, bragging he could make people faint at the site and driving around in a vehicle he dubbed the "lobotomobile" Do you find this outrageous. He also rarely washed his hands nor used a sterile environment for his ice pick lobotomies as he thought germ prevention ridiculous This caused his original partner to refuse to work with him. he wanted and made lobotomy a simple 10 minute procedure done anywhere. What is your opinions on this or questions I posed Please read this article..it is shocking and sad and reminds us where medical science has been and could still go. When we we start trying to take charge of our own health instead of blindly trusting people who may and have been wrong in the past. http://www.bruiseduk.com/lobotomy.htm well would you feel the same is one or someone you love dearly was one of the 200,000 killed by the doctors annual death error figures. I know I would. I have read about shock therapy when it was recommended by someone I knew and read stories of people losing their memories so much they forgot their children, jobs, marriages, and many years of their life. If you were one of the people or family members who lobotomy ruined, I trust you would feel different. Rescinding this award is the leas they can do if it helps the people who suffered several decades with the harm this man/men did to them. I only wonder how many people killed themselves in the 20 or so years that it took the FDA to put a black box warning on these drugs despite the drug company getting many reports of increased suicides. I was nearly a victim myself suffering intense suicidal ideation nearly every single day for 15 years from the ssri antidepressants and am only here by God's grace, crisis workers and my own strength and fears. I could be dead and many many others are. That you care so little for their wrongful death and defend these people is awful IMO. Read the books of Peter Breggen to see how much good these mental health drugs have done and the serious problems, consequences, brain damage and side effects they have. Much of psychiatry is a sham and a crime and a mega money maker. Breggen who worked in mental institution for years found they had better results with treating the patients with love and care than with drugs and surgical nightmares. I am not saying electric shock has not helped some. I had a relative it helped and that affected my life in a good way but he was one of the lucky ones. when I researched it decades later, I saw how fortunate he was to be helped and not harmed by it. I do not condemn all doctors but if you think just a few are greedy and arrogant and do not have time to be bothered then you have not had many doctors in your life. As a sufferer of clinic you say "and they were looking for any way to help people's suffering... they saw being lobotomized as better than being mentally ill..... " As someone who has suffered over 35 years having clinical depression, and as one with a mensa IQ, I can tell you that lobotomy would not have been in any way better. That is hwo they did these lobotomies on..the depressed and those with ocd not schizophrenics. I have depression..it is awful but it is not worse than having my brain altered in a way that made me a zombies or having the mond of a 5 year old...how many tragic losses like this took place. OMG and you are defending it. I have no idea why you think it was not for doing the lobotomy as many websites say it is and there is a lot of controversy and the victims of this are driving it as they have more right to than you.