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twitterLetter: Hospital acts in own interest
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002 | 9:02 a.m.
When Sunrise Hospital actively encouraged a "no" vote regarding opening another children's hospital in town, I felt it was their way of eliminating the competition.
And now Sunrise has testified to the Legislature asking that the UMC Quick Cares be put out of business. Not only does Sunrise not want a competing children's hospital to cut into their profits, now they want to eliminate the competing Quick Cares.
The pattern of cutthroat monopolies scares me. At this rate, eventually only the highly insured patients will get the care they need and the rest will fall by the wayside. It is time that this community demand that these out-of-state, multimillion-dollar corporations be more community-minded and less greed-minded.
CHRISTINE SAWYER Editor's note: The writer, a registered nurse at UMC, is chair of the Nurse Alliance for the Service Employees International Union, Local 1107.
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