State should be ashamed of itself, but since it isn't, it's up to Dorchester residents, healthcare experts to figure out how to replace Carney Hospital

The linked article is very much worth reading. What a failure by the state.

This is a great article. Thanks for linking to it. And, I am sharing it.

How can you close me up?On what grounds?
I am shocked! to find out there is buck-passing and kowtowing to finance going on.

In at least respect the state has long forsaken its Constitution and the social compact.
It doesn’t matter what god, gods, deity, deities you believe in, or if you believe in none, or hold that god both does and does not exist. The morals and ethics held in our constitution and across religions are largely hard learned and valued lessons. (Granted the “archaic” ones need contexct, but are not without meaning.)

No one should be surprised that Massachusetts would forsake its weakest and most vulnerable in abandoning Carney and Nashoba, because just look at what this state values: business, the lottery and gaming. Barney Frank is right that people have the civil liberty to do what they will with their money, but I firmly believe the state is in a state of abrogation of the Constitution and the social compact recognized therein when it preys upon our weakest with a state lottery and facilitates gaming and allows commercial gaming in any way, shape, or form to occur in the state to to be facilitated by the state or through and across state lines.

If the hospitals are going away?

I can't wait to piss on Mitt Romney's grave.

Everyone should have seen this coming. "Private equity firms" are the Gordon Gecko's of the new century. But rather than just sell off the assets, they bleed the asset dry, and THEN sell it.

What happened should surprise no one, and we shouldn't let private equity firms buy hospitals, utilities, or anything else we want to actually be around.

This is a much larger problem. While its easy to point fingers at local politics. The real issue is we should have never moved to a 'for profit' healthcare model in the 1970s (thanks again, Nixon). None of this would have happened if we did. And to be honest, if we did not, we would have nationalized healthcare now. But since Tricky Dick didn't want that to happen, he pushed us this way instead.

Without Healthcare being 'for profit', these parasitic 'private equity' firms wouldn't even be in the picture at all. In fact, Carney probably would still be owned by the Catholics or Caritas and probably operating at a loss but kept afloat with state & local subsidies because it would be a public necessity. If we went Nationalized healthcare, Carney would be fully funded by the gov't.

Point: We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a switch in the 1970s.