Toledo City Council next week will again consider
helping to fund the health-care program for uninsured Lucas County
residents created by former Mayor Jack Ford.
Councilman Mike Craig introduced an ordinance yesterday during the
agenda review meeting to provide $65,000 in operating funds to CareNet.
Mr. Craig said CareNet leverages millions of dollars worth of health-care coverage and is worth the expense.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner opposed the appropriation then and seems on track to oppose it again.
"We are against that coming out of the general fund," said Brian
Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman. "Perhaps we need to wean them from
general fund dollars."
Perhaps, the potentail 100K for another survey could be better used for CareNet funding?
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"Perhaps, the potential 100K for another survey could be better used for CareNet funding?"
Then, how would carty know how the people of Toledo feel? he's in his own little world, and the only one that matters is himself.
I thought the MUO is required to provide medical care to the uninsured in order to get the funding they do. IIs this correct?
If so, why do we need to spend another $65 grand for a service that's already available?
Just like any non-profit hospital UT will provide free care, but they don't have to as far as I know. I'm believe I'm correct in saying UT's hospital is NOT subsidized by the state for clinical endeavors. In fact, the hospital operations subsidizes the educational endeavors (which are subsidized by the state) of the school. The one exception is that a Medicare-accepting hospital must provide stabilizing care to a person in need of emergency care under EMTALA. Interestingly, EMTALA does not force doctor or nurses to take care of emergency patients (although ethically we are required); it only requires hospitals to take care of emergency patients.
He'd rather spend the money on yet another study, just in case he can use the (paid) results to pump up his feathers a bit. Priorities, people!
the city is broke. They can't do it right now.
And my Constitutional purist side says it is wrong
The City says it is broke. Some of us don't believe the City is broke. It depends if its planting flowers or helping poor people. The City appears to like planting flowers and it always seems to be enough money to plant the flowers.
heyhey - do you mean UT as in, the University of Toledo? If so, they don't provide free anything. UT requires medical insurance of all students or they can't register for classes at all - at a cost of about $500 per semester. So, not free at all. Does not cover all costs either, no more than other insurance does. (Perhaps I misunderstood.)
I think he was talking about the hospital...the one most of us call MCO. (Even though it changed to MUO, then UT.)
And I think he was referring more to the hospital's policy of treating emergency patients regardless of insurance (which ERs are required to do to receive federal funding)...not the care that they do or don't provide to students.
(It will always be MCO to me, darn it. Just like its always going to be Franklin Park, not Westfield. lol)
They should not support it.