Luxury Hospitals

[straphanger]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/ny...?_r=1&emc=eta1

The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes. The bathroom gleamed with polished marble. Huge windows displayed panoramic East River views. And in the hush of her $2,400 suite, a man in a black vest and tie proffered an elaborate menu and told her, “I’ll be your butler.”
It was Greenberg 14 South, the elite wing on the new penthouse floor of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital.

In the age of Occupy Wall Street- should Hospitals go out of their way to cater for such select clientèle?

[BW]

only $2400/night?

color me impressed.

im glad persons can be comfortable when sick

[straphanger]

$2400 plus base insurance

[BW]

ohho

[Solachica]

Ent Beyonce had luxury floor

[Sirius]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/ny...?_r=1&emc=eta1



In the age of Occupy Wall Street- should Hospitals go out of their way to cater for such select clientèle?

Hm if the patient can pay for it then why not? The patient gets more comfort in a time that can be very distressing and the hospital gets more funds to better equip itself.

[miktay]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/ny...?_r=1&emc=eta1



In the age of Occupy Wall Street- should Hospitals go out of their way to cater for such select clientèle?

Health care iz big bidness...

Thiz iz just another facet of a for-profit hospital constrained in the straighjacket of gubmint underwritten insurance, big pharma and an overly litigious society....

In sweet sweet T&T we have 2 of the former tho not yet the latter...

[Aurea]

So? That's no big deal - like was said - if a patient can afford it and wants the service etc, then why not?

Aurea

[straphanger]

aurea i think the issue is that in the US at least, the majority of money that a private hospital receives comes from government funded programs, i.e. Medicaid and Medicare and hardly from what a patient actually pays.
so what is happening is that these hospitals might be using the govt funding to upgrade their facilities to receive these high profile patients.