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Listener: Boyd
Category: General
Date: 21 Mar 2010
Time: 19:20:49 -0700
Remote Name: 68.89.241.253
Pratt,
I've always been confused about taxes for the Hospital District. I heard the spot on your show interviewing the administrator at UMC about the new bond. I lost count of the number of times he mentioned their "growth." If business is growing, why do we need to pay additional taxes to support their business?
Only government can operate a business, and still need tax dollars. I'm not talking about the bond. Bonds are needed for big ticket items. I understand. But why the money for daily business? Every hospital has unfunded patients. I take care of uninsured, non-paying patients at the hospital I work at as well as in my clinic. We arrange payment, and often we are just left empty handed.
It frustrates me to pay taxes earmarked for indigent care at UMC, only to see the same patients in my practice and not get paid. I don't feel that the patients should be forced to any one hospital, I just don't like having the other hospital in my back pocket. Get rid of the taxes, and let UMC sink or swim like any other hospital.
I understand educating local doctors. I did my training there as well. Money to UMC does not fund education though. TTUHSC is funded by the state.
Boyd
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