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Subsidium Report Shows Negotations a Scam
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:50 am
by Brian Essi
stephen davis wrote:I perused some of the other slides in the Subsidium document.
The slide showing "SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats" lists as one of two strengths, "Current Cleveland Clinic relationship is considered to be strong."
The Cleveland Clinic is Lakewood's current and proposed future partner.
As shown in the Subsidium slide below, that partner is the cause/controller of a majority of the weaknesses and threats to Lakewood Hospital.
Another slide shows "Risks and challenges to the future of the hospital." Again, Lakewood's partner is shown as a competitor and a challenge.
Has the Cleveland Clinic been a good partner?
Have they been good enough for Lakewood to give them a sanctioned monopoly on healthcare opportunities in our city?
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Steve,
The answers to your questions are unequivocally:
No.
and
No.
CCF, with Summers' complicity and approval, has intentionally weakened and threatened Lakewood Hospital.
Summers and Butler are intentionally and willfully ignoring the simple and undeniable facts set forth in the same expert report they claim supports their concocted "negotiating" strategy and scheme.
All of people at the "negotiating table" are the same people that manufactured the "crisis" to avoid accountability for their own actions and obtain illicit benefits for themselves and their cronies.
This corrupt conspiracy is but one reason that Lakewoodites should support the charter amendment.
Re: Subsidium Report Shows Negotations a Scam
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:24 pm
by Lori Allen _
I still have not heard of any council members standing up and objecting to all this corruption. Therefore, you have to say with council's complicity and approval also!
Re: Subsidium Report Shows Negotations a Scam
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 12:16 pm
by Brian Essi
The slide pointed out by Steve Davis above is directly related to the FTC complaint filed by Kucinich this week.
Defendants Summers and CCF attempt to close Lakewood has an anti-competitive effect that hurts consumers and will result in an increase in healthcare costs and insurance premiums to Lakewood residents.
It will be proven to be illegal.
Re: Subsidium Report Shows Negotations a Scam
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:31 pm
by Bridget Conant
The FTC has been pursuing these types of cases very aggressively. They will likely take this VERY seriously.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/bu ... l?referer=
Re: Subsidium Report Shows Negotations a Scam
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:42 pm
by Brian Essi
Bridget,
Here is another case closer to home--- from nearby Toledo in 2011 that has a good history of how health systems like CCF and Managed Care Organizations interact to increase costs and insurance rates for consumers in communities like Lakewood.
Just like in Toledo, CCF’s Market Consolidation could:
1 “[h]arm the community by forcing higher hospital rates on them.”
2. “may not be the best thing for the community in the long run.”
3. CCF “could stick it to employers, that is, to continue forcing higher rates on employers and insurance companies”
These are all direct quotes from a real case.
So Summers’ dream of “transforming healthcare” is actually a nightmare for us.