[CALV-ARES] Can Health Care Providers Afford to Be Ready for Disaster?

[N3AE]

Interesting article, but I think the essence of the reaction to the new federal mandates is found in: 

“If I never have a disaster and you make me invest, say, $100,000 or $500,000 in preparedness, I’ve lost revenue,” said Dr. David Marcozzi, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “However, for the facility that is impacted and is able to continue treating patients, the return on investment is different. Tell me, how do you do a budget analysis on that?” 

Bottom line...the medical mofia will find the ways to INCREASE overall costs to the public, pointing out the new regulations as the cause, while increasing their profits. Wait, you say. The hospital is "non-profit." I encourage you to read the April 4, 2013 issue of Time Magazine. http://www.uta.edu/faculty/story/2311/Misc/2013,2,26,MedicalCostsDemandAndGreed.pdf 

In military aviation, decisions on spending money to fix a problem are based on a formal risk analysis....the probability of occurrence and the consequence of occurrence. See attached. 

At least for a machine like an aircraft, one has some basis for formulation a probability based on known failure rates and redundancy. Consequences can be had by test and simulation. But I don't know how one can do this "risk cube" for things like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, except perhaps for hurricanes. 

Shawn 




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From: "Eric Christensen" <eric at christensenplace.us> 
To: "Calvert AUXCOMM" <calv-ares at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 10:27:06 AM 
Subject: [CALV-ARES] Can Health Care Providers Afford to Be Ready for Disaster? 

Monica, KC3DAS, found this article and thought it was worth passing 
along to the group. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/sunday-review/can-health-care-providers-afford-to-be-ready-for-disaster.html 

--Eric 


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