the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

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Be funny if James and Bragg suddenly cancelled all meetings like Adams did.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/jeff-bezos-leave-seattle-miami-nearly-30-years-after-founding-amazon[/URL]

We know the real reason. Plus -

The move may also benefit Bezos financially if he sells Amazon shares, since Florida, unlike Washington, does not have a capital gains tax. Washington recently enacted the 7% tax on [the sale of financial assets.]('https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/conservatives-hopeful-supreme-court-action-capital-gains-tax-case')

Good luck replacing that tax revenue.

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Allocate from the Inflation Creation Act and pay these soldiers their money. Wow.

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Hello??

Said comment on the way health care has been tanking...
[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Mount Sinai Seeks to Close One of Lower Manhattan’s Last Hospitals[/SIZE][/HEADING]
The private hospital system asked state regulators to close Mount Sinai Beth Israel, which serves a swath of Lower Manhattan that has already lost several major medical institutions.

One of the last remaining hospitals serving Lower Manhattan may well close next year, despite opposition from local officials and health activists who say the lessons of the pandemic are going unheeded.

Mount Sinai Health System asked state officials last week to approve a plan to close Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a major provider of medical care for Lower East Side residents that was founded in 1889. The hospital system said that its Beth Israel facility was losing money at too fast a pace and that it intended to shut it down in July 2024.

The closure would mean longer ambulance rides and wait times for some downtown residents having strokes and heart attacks, nurses who work at the hospital said. And it will most likely to lead to overcrowding and longer wait times in emergency rooms at hospitals farther uptown.

“People will likely die as a result,” said Sharlene Waylon, a nurse who has worked at the hospital for 41 years.

If it goes through, the hospital’s disappearance would leave the residents of Lower Manhattan with few major medical institutions. The largest hospital that would remain to serve that area would be NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan hospital, a small institution that has fewer than 200 beds. Beth Israel, by contrast, officially has some 696 beds, although far fewer are staffed and some days only a quarter of them are filled with patients.

Most of the large hospitals serving neighborhoods that include Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Chinatown have been shuttered. In the last 20 years alone, Cabrini Hospital in the Gramercy Park neighborhood and St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village have both closed.

“Lower Manhattan already has too few hospital beds, and the closure of Beth Israel will make that situation even worse,” said Lois Uttley, a longtime health care researcher and consultant who has tracked hospital consolidation and closures.

Just three years ago some hospitals were overwhelmed by a surge of patients during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. That was especially the case in Queens, where years of hospital closures left the few remaining hospitals, including Elmhurst, overwhelmed.

During the first deadly phase of the pandemic, Beth Israel cared for more than 1,700 Covid patients — 165 of whom died, according to state statistics.

“Hopefully New York State has learned its lessons from the pandemic when there was not enough hospital capacity,” Ms. Uttley said.

State hospital regulators must approve Mount Sinai’s request. In that sense, its application to close Beth Israel represents something of a test: Has the pandemic changed the state’s approach to hospital closures, which it traditionally has been willing to approve, and has [even encouraged]('https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/nyregion/29hosp.html')?

Far more surgeries and medical care occur on an outpatient basis or entirely outside of hospitals than in the past, which has been the logic behind some decisions to close hospitals. But the reduction in hospital beds has exacerbated crowding in emergency rooms at hospitals across the city.

Mount Sinai has said that with patient occupancy so low, its Beth Israel campus is set to lose $150 million a year. “These continued and growing losses pose a real existential threat to the viability and future of the entire Mount Sinai Health system,” the president of the Beth Israel campus, Elizabeth Sellman, [wrote in a letter to the state Health Department]('https://www.mountsinai.org/files/MSHealth/Assets/MSBI/MSBI-Closure-Plan-PFI1439-with-Cover-Letter.pdf') on Oct. 25.

The letter noted that Mount Sinai had invested in new facilities downtown, including a large [behavioral health center on Rivington Street]('https://gothamist.com/news/rivington-house-mount-sinai-opens-mental-health-center-lower-east-side-manhattan') that opened this year.

On Thursday afternoon, Rose Kacic, who was born at Beth Israel 30 years ago, was visiting the hospital to see her 59-year-old mother, who had a range of health issues.

“It’s upsetting to know they’re closing down,” she said. “It’s a very essential part of the community,” she added. Her three brothers were also born at Beth Israel, and she said it had been her family’s hospital ever since her mother moved to New York from Puerto Rico.

“Now I got to worry about where to go if something major happens,” she said, noting that Bellevue, the next closest hospital, was 10 blocks away.

The local assemblyman, Harvey Epstein, expressed concern that Mount Sinai’s decision to close Beth Israel was motivated by what the hospital’s property could fetch if it was sold to developers.

“Is this just a real estate grab for them?” Mr. Epstein wondered in a phone interview this week.

The history of Beth Israel is [linked to the influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe]('https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi6UxoYWeYkC&lpg=PA144&dq=%22plight%20of%20the%20jewish%20patient%20who%20arrives%20at%20a%20hospital%20where%20they%20understand%20neither%22&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=mount%20sinai&f=false') who settled in the Lower East Side in the late 19th century. In 1889, a group of these newcomers decided to form a dispensary and later a hospital. Not only did the Lower East Side, emerging as one of the most densely packed places on earth, need medical institutions of its own, but the newcomers also sought kosher food and culturally appropriate treatment.

Mount Sinai Hospital, farther uptown, was originally founded to care for indigent Jews and was staffed by many Jewish doctors, but it was regarded as unwelcoming to the unassimilated Jews from Russia.

Mount Sinai’s plans to close Beth Israel did not come out of nowhere. Mount Sinai and Beth Israel have been part of the same system for a decade, ever since Mount Sinai, a leading hospital at the edge of the Upper East Side and Harlem, merged with Continuum Health Partners, [which ran Beth Israel and two St. Luke’s-Roosevelt campuses]('https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/nyregion/2-hospital-networks-agree-to-merge-raising-specter-of-costlier-care.html').

In 2016, Mount Sinai proposed [closing Beth Israel]('https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/nyregion/mount-sinai-beth-israel-hospital-in-lower-manhattan-will-close-to-rebuild-smaller.html') and replacing it with a much smaller hospital of just 70 beds. But that plan was shelved amid the pandemic.

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I love these kind of stories that give more credibility to evolution vs theology(y)
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I love these kind of stories that give more credibility to evolution vs theology(y)
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Already post in Moon thread last week...

Already post in Moon thread last week...

Sorry
I don't have the time, energy, or desire to read every post in every thread8-);):p:ROFLMAO:

I love these kind of stories that give more credibility to evolution vs theology(y)
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I don't see where you got evolution out of an article about geophysics. But then again you also thought that I believed insurance companies were responsible for naming storms. So I'm not sure how you draw your conclusions.

And I'm also at a loss as to why many people think science and faith are inherently contradictory. Seems like people on both sides are so concerned about proving themselves superior by winning the argument that they forget to respect the other person. Even if they are wrong.

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/real-reason-americas-wealthiest-men-left-blue-state-red-one[/URL]

There is a cautionary tale here for blue state America -- which day after day is being bled to death by this steady stream of migration of millions of people and tens of billions of capital to red states.

But that’s all ended. [Progressives in Seattle took charge ]('https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/seattle')and started their relentless "soak the rich" campaign. This started with the state adopting a death tax that can reach 19% for millionaires and billionaires. That’s one of the highest rates in the nation - all for the privilege of dying in Washington. That is something Jeff Bezos has decided he will not do.

Then last year the state adopted a 6% capital gains tax even though the state’s constitution prohibits an income tax. There may be no one on the planet that has more capital gains than Mr. Bezos. And now the legislature is debating a 1% annual wealth tax.

He never mentioned the tax advantages of [residing in Florida]('https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/florida'), and almost no one in the media -- not CNN, The New York Times, or CNBC mentioned the tax advantages of this relocation. I don’t know anything about his personal finances, but he has formed one of the largest [family foundations ]('https://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/')in the world with multi-billions of dollars of his wealth that now will forever escape taxation.

**Washington state may learn a painful lesson. If you sock it to the rich, the rich get out of dodge. Bezos declared that Seattle will "always have my heart."

But not his wallet.**

California is still trying to figure out a way around that

California is still trying to figure out a way around that

One of my college buddies was from NJ and he pointed out that there were no tolls going into New Jersey. But they charged you to get out, and you'd be willing to pay it to escape.

NJ has an exit tax too. NY is looking at it. Especially since they decided to look at a billionaire tax. Hmmmmm ...

One of my college buddies was from NJ and he pointed out that there were no tolls going into New Jersey. But they charged you to get out, and you'd be willing to pay it to escape.

NJ has an exit tax too. NY is looking at it. Especially since they decided to look at a billionaire tax. Hmmmmm ...

A bit different.

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CA is looking to tax net worth. Monies that have already been taxed.

Just did a calc on what Bezos would have owed if he had lived in CA and the 2nd bill passed