NationStates Jolt Archive

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_re_eu/italy_dirty_hospitals

ROME - Expired drugs, unlicensed nurses, stray cats and scuttling rats were among the horrors that emerged from police inspections of Italian hospitals that recommended possible investigations against more than 100 people, health officials said Thursday.
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How could the hospitals get this bad? I, personally, don't like hospitals. If you go to a hospital being well, well you end up leaving sick. Hospitals are filled with germs no matter what they do to keep it clean, keeping the AC cranked full blast, using all sorts of cleaning chemicals that kill germs but they normally still are germ-filled. Now Italy, this is a completely different thing. How could an Admininstrator or Director allow his/her hospital get that bad?

This is the main reason why I support universal health insurance and a private healthcare system; the private sector is much easier to monitor and regulate than the public sector, and abuses don't last as long because there are more people keeping tabs on it (competitors, the managers of the hospitals, the government, and the upper-level management of the company).

Give people the money to pay for healthcare, but leave the providing up to the private sector as much as possible.

Maybe they unfroze Mussolini and he was running the place? ...Im done now.

Maybe they unfroze Mussolini and he was running the place? ...Im done now.

I don't know, you'd think Benito "Punctual Trains" Mussolini would be quite good at that kind of thing...

This is the main reason why I support universal health insurance and a private healthcare system; the private sector is much easier to monitor and regulate than the public sector, and abuses don't last as long because there are more people keeping tabs on it (competitors, the managers of the hospitals, the government, and the upper-level management of the company).

Give people the money to pay for healthcare, but leave the providing up to the private sector as much as possible.
Public all the way. Private tends to dislike regulation and monitoring.

I don't know, you'd think Benito "Punctual Trains" Mussolini would be quite good at that kind of thing...

For a medical facility? :eek: I shudder too think...

Public all the way. Private tends to dislike regulation and monitoring.

Neither does the public sector. At least with a public/private mix you have both of then keeping an eye on each other rather than the public sector having to watch over itself. Self-oversight never really works in government or the private sector, especially when there's so much money and opportunities for patronage around.

Wasn't there something about organ theft from freshly deceased people as well?