Day 4 A Rudin flunkie stops by to taunt me and bother me so I asked him if he is a retired cop. Turns out he is a MD - he tried to stop an NYPD Officer from giving another Rudin flunkie a ticket which evokes the question does any NYPD do ticket fixing or NYPD favors for the Rudin family?
I asked the NYPD officer about the "Rudin suit" and he confirmed the guy is a doctor and was his at Saint Vincent's!
This doctor had instructed me to leave and protest some where else.
I stay connected with activists and blogger thru out NYC at all times so I asked one how could a doctor telling to go protest some where else and not standing with us. Blogger pal said doctors will do anything for money har dee -- and by the way since this MD was a big time smoe I asked him how much is Rudin paying him.
A fellow activist shouted SHAME You are a doctor SHAME and he scurries off!!
Activist sent me this:
Article about the plight of hospitals in Brooklyn..4 high points in a rich-with-information article by Nina Bernstein.
1) "New York State added a right to health care to its constitution during the Great Depression, and is the only state that still prevents large companies and their stockholders from owning hospitals."
2) "Brooklyn now has 2.3 beds per 1,000 residents, compared with Manhattan's 4.7 and the state's 3.1"
Did everybody read "How To Lie With Statistics" in college? I read it in about 1976. It helped me to understand the real meaning of the numbers in the article.
---Manhattan's 4.7 beds per 1,000 population
---The East Side of Manhattan has 4,000 beds for approximately 350,000 people that comes out to
EIGHTY SEVEN point FIVE 87.5 hospital beds per 1,000 population for the East side of Manhattan while the WEST SIDE has ZERO beds per 1,000 population ZERO hospital beds for over 1,000,000 people.
3) "Proposals to save the Brooklyn surviving hospitals include.... Another idea is making one or more of the (Brooklyn) hospitals a free-standing emergency department, a concept being tried at the defunct St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village."
( NB USE OF WORD "TRIED")
4) "...the three public hospitals in the area (Brooklyn) could shoot up to as much as 130 percent of capacity and face a third (33.3%) more emergency room visits if even 1 or 2 of the more vulnerable private hospitals closed...Alvan Aviles, the president of New York City's public hospital system, said it was making contingency plans for such a flood,
but could not go it alone, particularly since the collapse of the City's Catholic hospital network."
( N.B. IT COULD NOT GO IT ALONE PARTICULARLY SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE CITY'S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL NETWORK)
So, guys aren't there some legal issues and lies going on here????
Use you network and tweets and twitters and squeeks and yells and friends in high placesAN and power to get something done about it.
Another thought and question:
Since Rudin GAVE the O'Toole building to North Shore LIJm will they get a tax deduction for it?
So if the Times is right and Rudin paid $260 million for the SVH real estate, could he get a $100 million tax deduction for the $100 million value of O'Toole, thus reducing his net cost for the entire SVH property to $100 150 million which he will sell for over a billion, and then according to ideas floated in the Times article today, that "possibly a change in law that would leave taxpayers, bondholders and other creditors to absorb the hosptials' net debt."
As Shakespeare said: "Something's rotten in Denmark!" Love, L
