>A recent Headline from North Jersey Media ” Keep hospital shut, blacks tell Corzine” on Friday, July 10, 2009 BY Mary Jo Layton a staff writer set off alarm bells to this reader(https://www.northjersey.com/news/health/50426962.html ) It was filled with the usual tripe about how someone opening a hospital somewhere else is some how impacting the “down trodden” It was filled with the usually quotes from NAACP types and some comments from Assemblyman Gordon Johnson from Englewood not surprisingly home of none other than Englewood Hospital . But beside from omiiting the fact that Assemblyman Gordon Johnson represnts Englewood Hospital in his district ,I found the head line to be a very particular and insidious choice of words.,” Keep hospital shut, blacks tell Corzine” hummm no blacks live and work in Westwood or Hackensack?
The Implication being this person some how speaks for all blacks and it would be in their interest to ration health care for the rest of us? Folks maybe this is the problem to begin with . If a private investor wants to take a risk and open a hospital whats the problem ? I dont blame vested interests like Valley or Englewood Hospital for defending their turf but should it be up to Trenton to decide weather someone is allowed to open a hospital or not and where? I get it ,yes there are public health regulations and rightfully so but who the hell is Jon Corzine or some health care union to decide weather I can access health care or not ? Isnt the very problem leveled against the US health Care system that some dont have access? Yes some communities probably need a hospital more because of higher demand than north eastern part of Bergen county,but what does one have to do with the other ?
