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LancasterOnline.com: Lancaster General Health trims health coverage for part-timers - TalkBack
Quote: Lancaster General Health trims health coverage for part-timers
By JACK BRUBAKER
2009-10-22 07:12:
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When you consider that some of the part-time employees are working for other healthcare entities and just keep some hours at LGH so that they can have benefits, this move is understandable.
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I think it is horrible.
How can a hospital deny health coverage for its own employees?
Especially when it is making a $113 million dollar profit.
They have money for player pianos and fountains and all that, yet for their own staff it's tough luck.
They have money for an executive box at the Barnstormers.
The people I know in that situation aren't working anywhere else and have no other options for insurance except welfare.
This isn't about the community or staying competitive, it's about saving some money to claim an executive bonus.
And from reading Mary Miskey's comments it's clear her attitude towards her own employees is "Let them eat cake"
This post has been edited by Bouquet : Oct 22 2009, 09:10 AM
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Hasn't it been rare for some time to give part-timers benefits at all?
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Quote: I think it is horrible.
How can a hospital deny health coverage for its own employees?
Especially when it is making a $113 million dollar profit.
They have money for player pianos and fountains and all that, yet for their own staff it's tough luck.
They have money for an executive box at the Barnstormers.
The people I know in that situation aren't working anywhere else and have no other options for insurance except welfare.
This isn't about the community or staying competitive, it's about saving some money to claim an executive bonus.
And from reading Mary Miskey's comments it's clear her attitude towards her own employees is "Let them eat cake"
That does it...
I'll never defend LGH ever again
ETA: (IMG: http://talkback.lancasteronline.com/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif )
This post has been edited by skeptic2 : Oct 22 2009, 01:28 PM
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Hmmm. So LGH, I'm sorry, LG Health, just spent $20 million promoting and marketing its new name, and pointy-starred logo including mandatory "happy-thought" training and goofy notebooks for all their staff - and now they can't scourge in the comfy cushions of the hotel-like entryway to find a few pennies to provide health care for their part-time (ie.
Read: least-well off) employees.
The LGH health care plan is a racket, anyway.
Everyone who works there MUST go to LGH-affiliated doctors and hospitals, or automatically pay a $1000 fine.
I don't even think their resident spin-mistress, Jan L.
Bergen, could make this move sound good...
Ahem... for the community.
But I am sure they will try - it's just another "extraordinary experience" provided by LGH, opps...
LG Health.
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Yeah, and it gets even better for them...they cut benefits to their staff, forcing them onto public assistance which is paid by tax-dollars...and LGH is Tax Exempt.
What a win-win for them
Well, I guess John Lines and Mary Miskey will be getting a nice Christmas bonus this year...with their salaries, I'm sure they need all the help they can get.
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I'm so sick of LGH here lately.
I know they have surplus all year long and are constantly looking for ways to spend it to maintain their non-profit status.
The move to remove health benefits to p/t employees just shows they are only about money.
I will never go for treatment there.
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Quote: Hasn't it been rare for some time to give part-timers benefits at all?
It is.
No question. But LGH, with their money and the fact that it is a healthcare organization, could dare to be different.
That said, they also see the large lune up of candidates for hire and don't have to do the extras right now.
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Quote: I'm so sick of LGH here lately.
(IMG: http://talkback.lancasteronline.com/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif ) Good one, Chris!
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The largest healthcare provider in the area doesn't it think it can afford to provide healthcare to its lowest paid employees.
But the current system is OK, right?
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Quote: (IMG: http://talkback.lancasteronline.com/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif ) Good one, Chris!
At least someone got it, lol.
See, if you meet me then you'll understand my sense of humor just a bit more, right?
LOL LOL LOL
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Miskey said LGH must be concerned not only about employees but the community.
"We always need to be very conscious of how we spend dollars because they are community dollars," she said.
LGH made a profit of $113 million last year.
Because the organization is non-profit, all of that money must be reinvested.
For example, Lines said, LGH is establishing a new method of maintaining medical records that will cost tens of millions of dollars.
"Everything we earn stays here to meet the growing demands for health care in Lancaster County," he said.
I'm very suspect of a person who promotes caring about the community yet has no qualms about kicking their own people off of their insurance.
It's like saying you are all about family while bankrupting your brother.
And I love Lines' comment about the growing demands for health care in Lancaster County...yeah, like all the people you are going to make uninsured.
I can't believe that this is anything but an executive money grab.
They probably called around the other hospitals and said, "You mean your executives make WHAT???" and so decided they better get "competitive" with executive compensation at the expense of the employees.
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I'm wondering where PML is and why we haven't seen her comments??
(IMG: http://talkback.lancasteronline.com/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif )
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Quote: They have money for player pianos and fountains and all that, yet for their own staff it's tough luck.
They have money for an executive box at the Barnstormers.
It's in keeping with the executive suites for the very special elite patients.
I don't ever want to hear of them crying about a shortage of bed space for sick people when they have a room the size of a ballroom for one person.
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