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Guest Column: It’s Time to Rethink Taxpayer Funding for MUSC
“MUSC has drifted from its mission… and is leveraging state dollars to dominate a health care market that should be competitive.”
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I wonder which lobbyists are lining this dude’s pockets…
MUSC is a real medical school with cutting edge doctors and scientists . Not like this USC pretend school. If you have cancer that is where you go! In SC politicians love the race to the bottom. SC is the heart of the stroke belt and the prevalence of dementia and Parkinson will cost the health insurance hundreds of millions. Public health is a core function of the state government and the denial of that reveals what kind of unchristian society will emerge here for the next foreseeable future: an unenlightened neo medieval jungle.
Maybe MUSC needs to have a football team? It appears that that ‘core function’ is never questioned by local politicians and governing boards. MUSC provides health and economic impact of which taxpayers benefit enormously. This shortsighted neoliberal viewpoint is one of the reasons SC does not advance as a state and will remain what it is for decades or more.
Former state Senator Nikki Setzler, one of the last of a dying breed of sane mainstream Democrats who wasn’t captured by the current trend of wacko Maoist ideology, publicly complained on multiple occasions that MUSC was straying out of its mission to keep healthcare services available in the poorer, more rural areas of the state where market profitability hindered private healthcare providers from being able to operate there. Instead, MUSC has been seeking to acquire healthcare providers in the major SC markets (Greenville- Spartanburg, the Midlands, Rock Hill metro, Charleston, etc.) and doing so with the aid of tax exempt bonds and nonprofit tax exempt operating revenues. If left unchecked, we will be left with a de facto socialized medical system in this state. Whether the healthcare system is private or public, when it gets whittled down to effectively one sole provider, quality of care declines. It’s just the natural consequence of a monopolistic market.
Good viewpoint Luke, MUSC has become a hospital for profit while enjoying a hand out better than a FILOT. And while I comprehend the other comments, based on their view point, MUSC should be cheaper than its’ competitors. MUSC isn’t what it once was.
Didn’t this guy just get back from a taxpayer subsidized trip to Israel?
That would be Senator Luke Rankin who is unrelated to Representative Luke Rankin
MUSC has often been snagged filing illegal medical claims.. They are notorious for False Claim Act violations, over billing Medicare and Medicaid for services never actually done (fraud).
Just about 8 weeks ago they had to pay a fine for fraudulent doctor billings again. But for some strange unknown reason, nobody is ever prosecuted and sentenced. They just agreed to pay a $225,113.29 fine in July for submitting telehealth claims for longer psychotherapy sessions than were actually provided. This fine was part of an action by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. Other cases over the past 30 years were serious, but nobody ever goes to prison Strange to me.
Lots of snakes in suits at MUSC.