Yeah, but repealing the csra wouldn’t exactly solve their issues with federal employees, and would likely cause more problems than it solves.

The CSRA was a compromise between federal employees and the government. Giving up their right to collective bargaining for a set amount of guaranteed rights and options of recourse. If you ended up overturning the csra you would also be getting rid of the prohibitions against collective bargaining and more importantly…strikes.

Meaning that federal employees would garter the power to freeze aspects of the federal government on demand. Making their collective bargaining power immense.

I’m sure he’s going to do a bunch of damage, but I doubt they would go as far as repealing the CSRA, and even if they did, it might be a good thing for workers.

Ahh, well now I’ll have to download and watch it out of penance.

I mean how many people can this be? Are there actually any people who only work on dei compliance? Seems like one of the many things that would be handled by someone who got cross trained in an HR department.

Would be pretty rad if you were in that position though. Seems likely some people just got a 4 year long paid vacation. After the civil service reform act, trying to fire people like this is a long and uphill battle.

Hmmm… I might have been heretical then. Been a while since I’ve seen it, maybe I just subliminally associate Kevin Smith with New Jersey for some reason?

Looks like she is from New Jersey originally? I guess being banished to new jersey is biblically accurate if you consider the movie Dogma to be canon.

I think at some point this is just being pedantic. There’s no medical definition for sex at conception because there is no applicable medical reason for it.

The whole point is that legal definitions are not sufficient to dictate biological processes, let alone determine an embryos future sexual development.

Sex isn’t usually medically determined by chromosomal pairings, that would require a lot more prenatal care then most women generally receive. For the most part it’s determined by the development of primary sexual organs, which can be a complicated process for about 1 out of 1k children.

Hospitals are famously expensive to build, I would expect them to have a pretty huge budget compared to a normal facility the same size.

Plus, that’s counter intuitive to your argument. If it was run by finance bros wouldn’t you expect them to spend as little as possible on facilities?

Hospital networks aren’t the cash grab they used to be, a lot has changed in the last 10-15 years, really since the affordable care act passed. Which if you read the article is when this hospital group first started having financial problems.

The way insurance companies responded to the bill was to do more business with private clinics and hospitals where they could set up in network reimbursement programs.

used to be a part of the construction of hospitals, they have money.

Construction and the actual operation of hospitals have next to nothing to do with each other?

Finance bros wouldn’t be a part of it if it wasn’t profitable for them somehow.

It depends on what kind of hospitals you are talking about. There’s plenty of investment capital for orthopedic or heart hospitals/clinics. But no one wants to invest in hospitals with emergency departments. They only do it when they are forced to, just like in the article you just posted.

Even though most hospitals spend way too much on administration, I doubt that’s really the reason they are 1-10 billion dollars in debt.

That’s just because hospitals aren’t very profitable, especially nowadays when they are competing with dozens of private clinics who only do specialty medicine.

Because of the lack of universal healthcare running emergency medicine departments have become giant money holes. Where all the other departments in the hospitals only real goal is to make enough money so they can keep the ER afloat.

So when a new private hospital or clinic opens that don’t have a ER or trauma ward, its basically siphoning the funding stream away from hospitals whom do practice emergency medicine.

The real catch is that states often mandate that hospitals keep their emergency departments operational, as there are often only a few operating in populated areas to serve the general public. However, they often do not mandate that new hospitals open new emergency medicine departments.

This is just going to be more and more of an issue as we continue to ignore the fact that healthcare is a natural monopoly and should not be operating off a profit motive.

I work at the only trauma 1 hospital in my state and we just had to basically get a bail out for the same reason.

Man, these old heartless fucks just won’t die. Part of me thinks we have shot ourselves in the foot coming out with the vaccine so quickly. Maybe if we would have let COVID cook a little longer we could have shaken off a few of these parasites.

Blast radius? My dude, they overturned roe v wade and nobody batted an eye.

They’re just fighting over the bag, which happens within the GOP during the best of times. Just because they aren’t uniform in certain policy doesn’t mean they won’t rally together to strip rights away from minorities, or enact more Christ based fascism.