{"id":7473,"date":"2014-05-13T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2014-05-13T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:12:13","slug":"major_moments_minor_lifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/major_moments_minor_lifts.html","title":{"rendered":"Major Moments, Minor Lifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “major moment in the history of health care in this city”<\/a> amounts to little more than a press conference and eventual reversal, with added benefit of additional lawsuits<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Under pressure to settle the suit quickly and stem losses that were mounting at $13 million a month, SUNY agreed to ill-conceived bidding rules that favored any plan to keep LICH as a hospital, no matter how unrealistic.<\/p>\n

Even though that deal politicized a process that should be driven by public health considerations, de Blasio hailed it as a historic breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Just how wrong he was became clear when the winner emerged as Brooklyn Health Partners, an outfit so obviously unfit that it was quickly rejected by Blasio and the unions — and could not even come up with promised down payment of $25 million by Thursday’s extended deadline.<\/p>\n

With the mayor’s support, SUNY then opened talks with the runner-up, Peebles Corp., which plans much the same mix of medical services and housing that de Blasio found unacceptable last year.<\/p>\n

Standing in the way of this outcome, however, are not one but two fresh lawsuits — the first by Brooklyn Health Partners, claiming it was treated unfairly, and another by community groups that were de Blasio’s former allies, claiming SUNY violated terms of the cockamamie settlement.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “major moment in the history of health care in this city” amounts to little more than a press conference and eventual reversal, with added benefit of additional lawsuits: Under pressure to settle the suit quickly and stem losses that were mounting at $13 million a month, SUNY agreed to ill-conceived bidding rules that favored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}