Stop moving and you die!
Published Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A number of people are freaked out by Natchez Regional Medical Center's plans, dreams, hopes, whatever you want to call it, to create a long-term acute care hospital.
People are crying foul all over the place about this as if the $800,000 the hospital planned to spend was wasteful spending.
While $800,000 may seem like Monopoly money to you and me, it's just over what the hospital spends in payroll in two weeks.
It's chicken feed in the grand scheme of things and if it could help create some positive cash flow for the hospital, why not give it a try?
Maybe I'm crazy, but all of the doubters who are criticizing Regional for wanting to create a money-making venture (the LTACH) may have forgotten one key fact that's true in life and in business.
If you stop moving, you die.
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If 800,000.00 is chicken feed to the hospital, then 7.5 million is just nine times chicken feed, so why the new tax?
So all the hospital has to do to pay off the 7.5 million is to skip payroll for eighteen weeks.
How simple these problems turn out to be, thank you Kevin.
EnKiKur, Kevin can save the money he was planning to spend on Finance 101 for a University of Phoenix correspondence course.
"If you stop moving, you die."
There is a theory that sometimes you have to step back to go forward.
Agreed, Gary. Thanks for the math lesson, Marty. :) Besides, don't you (Marty) live in Vidalia? If so, would the Adams County tax actually affect you?
My point is: the hospital is still a business and as such needs to keep trying to progress and get ahead.
There seems to be a group of people who think the hospital should just be shuttered. That's a really bad idea at this point.
Closing the doors won't make the debt go away. It would just take away the only hope of ever paying it down without funding the whole thing through a tax increase. Close up shop and the county gets stuck with the debt bill.
Besides, as I understand it, the combined census (average number of people staying) at Community and Regional exceeds Community's capacity, so where would those people go?
It takes money to make money...so someone needs to make Regional an up to date facility.
We can't lose it all together, Kevin is right about that. I mean, where would we go when Community is full?
Well, would a property tax increase in Adams County affect me or not? I think it would. I do own a house in Vidalia, but I am confused about where I live due to vagaries in Louisiana law. I am a native Mississippian, and I do keep my money, what little I have, over in Natchez.
At the very least, I feel if I don't support tax resisters wherever they live then I am helping to create the sense that politicians have a right to the property of individuals to use for collective purposes. Whatever Natchez does, Vidalia does soon after, and i don't want tax increases migrating across the river. Plus, whenever I buy something in Natchez part of the cost of that item is whatever tax burden the seller is under.
I don't know where the reactionists got the idea the hospital might shut down, but if that is one of the options maybe it should be considered. I never thought that was a seriously considered option though, because with gross business over 130 million, someone must be making something off of it, and those people definitely do not want that to end.
I don't care if they want to turn it into club med. I live in Adams county so a tax increase would effect me. I would like one example where a tax increase solved anything. Expand, bring in prisoners, mental patients stop some services get rid of management just leave us tax payers alone. I am curious as to why Kevin thought it necessary to call EnKiKur by his name.
Beammeupscotty:
A couple of things. EnKiKur signed a post a month or so ago, so when I look at his username, I see his real name. Didn't mean to "out" him. No offense meant.
You bring up a good point in your chiding me, Beammeupscotty. I wonder if anyone has estimated the impact of the new CCA prison on Natchez Regional? Between supposedly 300 new jobs and the likelihood that some of the prisoners may need hospital care from time to time, that might be a good new patient source.
(chuckle) It is okay scotty, Kevin knows I don't care if people know who I am, I do sometimes sign my posts- not all the time because I don't want neighbors throwing rocks through my windows while I am off at work, but sometimes.
The comment section has been a lot of fun Kevin. I am glad ya'll set it up this way.
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