The Observation Deck

Google "21st Century Healthcare" and you get 20,600,00 results in .54 seconds.

Add the word "telemedicine" to your search, and you can instantly obtain "21st Century Healthcare" sitting at home from nearly 269,000 telemedicine hits including the Cleveland Clinic.

You can have "21st Century Healthcare" delivered to your home in a package within 24 hours by over 10 million companies--just pull out your credit card.

But watch out, that can all be "delayed" if you Vote Against 64----the Cleveland Clinic, Mike Summers and Jay Carson say they are are going to "delay" all of this "21st Century Healthcare" coming to Lakewood. Huh?

Talk about Scare Tactics and horse manure.

Exactly how are they going to "delay" 21st Century Healthcare coming to Lakewood?

Its been here for 16 years (it's 2016 isn't it?) and they can't stop it---and neither can you.

Vote Against 64

Tell the silly "scary" manure spreaders that we don't want anymore of their manure.

The Clinic will not change their offerings to Lakewood - we represent a market share that they want and need.

Telemedicine is a way for providers to make more money at less cost - they aren't going to let that get by them. In fact, it can be profitable for them as most insurances do not cover it. They charge $49 for the first ten minutes or so, conveniently billed to your credit card!

Where does that leave those without credit cards?

And how good is the service? According to Fortune and a WSJ article, I'd be wary of any diagnosis made via telemedicine:

http://fortune.com/2016/05/16/telemedicine-services/

Bridget Conant wrote:The Clinic will not change their offerings to Lakewood - we represent a market share that they want and need.

Supply and demand. If the Clinic were to fold their tents and leave, another health system would be here, if not in an instant, pretty quickly.
That's why the arguments about losing out on the "opportunity" presented by the CCF Family Health Center are so bogus.
Vote Against 64.

That's the point. The entire screed of "no one wants to provide healthcare in Lakewood" is a distraction.

We have 52,000 people. It's a large market. Perhaps the Clinic doesn't like our "payer mix," but other entities could work with it.

Of course, that pesky "non-compete" clause our mayor "negotiated" will make that an impossibility.

Bridget Conant wrote:That's the point. The entire screed of "no one wants to provide healthcare in Lakewood" is a distraction.

We have 52,000 people. It's a large market. Perhaps the Clinic doesn't like our "payer mix," but other entities could work with it.

Of course, that pesky "non-compete" clause our mayor "negotiated" will make that an impossibility.

The Clinic really likes the "premium payers" in our mix--the "other" payers, not so much.

Summers maybe can't delay 21st century healthcare in a literal sense, but appearing to have a judge and members of the court system in your back pocket can certainly help in delaying a lawsuit!