my wife has been in and out of the hospital for about a month (don't ask!) and I've noticed something. The hospital is the "Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center," which is very good despite its name. It's much better than the old UCLA hospital, where our son was born many years ago. Anyway, the point is that there are not enough hospital rooms, so that my wife had to wait and wait and wait for a room each of the three times she was admitted. The first time, there was no reason for the wait at all, since they knew should would need a room after the operation! Why the lack of rooms? the reason seems to be is that the hospital went upscale: all rooms are private (not shared with others) and there are a bunch of luxury suites (which I haven't seen). It's like Comiskey Park in Chicago (the home of the (once) world champion White Sox). When they built the new stadium, they added a bunch of sky boxes for the rich and corporate -- and reduced the number of seats for regular people.
the economic reason for the shortage of rooms is the same as the reason for the name of the hospital: it reflects growing economic inequality in the US. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
