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Jon Halsey comments on Billy Joe Fudge Hospital proposal Favors private sector solution, but notes a paradox. Asks why "Fiscal Court is rolling over and playing dead in the face of Spectrum's secret investigations and covert actions," and asks why the court cannot unappoint the current board and 'appoint people who have some modicum of knowledge regarding hospital, financial, and managerial administration By Jon Halsey Writer's personal commentary The writer makes some excellent points regarding some of the steps that must be taken regarding the hospital situation. However, I have spent two days pondering the paradox presented in the article. The following seem to be in direct conflict and I'm not sure how it could be resolved:
- "We the people" in the form of the Adair County fiscal court must assume control and ownership of the hospital."The "private sector" and "Government control and ownership" are at direct odds with each other. You either have the Government sector or the Private sector. It's either one or the other. As it currently stands, the hospital IS owned by the local government or "we the people" and controlled by by local government. So it appears the writer is proposing no change to the current setup. However, the writer is also spot on in stating that the "Adair County fiscal court must assume control..." Therein lies the heart of the matter. The Hospital Board has not exercised the control we gave them over the hospital and to further exacerbate the situation, the Fiscal Court seems to have exercised no control over their own appointed Hospital Board. Until such time as current leadership shows a willingness to address the serious situation in a forthright manner and some resolve to apply sound business principles to the crises then it seems that we are guilty of Einstein's famous dictum regarding insanity. In support of this rather harsh observation I ask the following questions:
All of this is typical of government ownership and I don't see why we should think that this situation will be any different than the experience of years of Federal, State and Local Government operations from coast to coast for the past 200 plus years. There is after all a sound reason that the Federal bureaucracy was forced to have Inspector Generals for every department in the system. - Jon Halsey Knifley, Adair County, KY Comments re article 53633 Billy Joe Fudge writes Save Our Hospital This story was posted on 2012-08-12 18:20:20
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