Health Care

Admitting that government creates health care problems, Massachusetts regulators allow - there's that allow word again - hospitals to share drugs to alleviate shortages. Government is admitting it created shortages, so it's getting out of the way so the market can fix that problem. Too bad our federal government isn't that smart.

This story about a hospital in Orlando laying off 400 people is supposed to indict Obamacare. My question is why does a hospital non-essential people to begin with.

"The elimination of jobs will occur in two phases and represents a 2 percent to 3 percent reduction in the system's 16,000-person work force, said Orlando Health spokeswoman Kena Lewis. The cuts affect all departments and all eight of the system's hospitals, including Orlando Regional Medical Center and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, two of the system's better-known facilities."

They have 16,000 employees? That's absurd. It's a hospital. It should have doctors, nurses and techs. Nobody else. What this shows us is how our health care system is grossly burdened with waste.