Recently, the TRIOS Hospital District announced some budgetary cutbacks and staff eliminations designed to help the Hospital make its $800,000 monthly lease payment.
If this were a private company, the CEO by now would probably have been fired, significant restructuring would have been done to save money, or the company would have tried re-organizational bankruptcy.
Dr. Roger Stark is an acclaimed physician, author, and expert in the field of medicine as well as what affects the medical field politically. He's coming to the Tri-Cities Monday.
On top of the struggles to implement the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Inslee is supporting a new bill that would create additional control over our health care industry in Washington state.
The Washington Healthcare Exchange released a statement Thursday trumpeting what they say is a large jump in health insurance enrollment. But the actual number of clients purchasing insurance plans was only about 12 percent of the total!