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The question that this story doesn't answer (unless I missed it) is why hospitals are refusing to sign contracts right now when they are so badly in need of mas
by jmckib 7y ago
The question that this story doesn't answer (unless I missed it) is why hospitals are refusing to sign contracts right now when they are so badly in need of masks. Either that, or pay whatever price is necessary to get the factory to produce more masks without a contract. Is it lack of budget? Legal/administrative hurdles? Something else?
- missedthecue 7y agoAlmost all hospitals don't make profit. They don't have the $$ to sign contracts like that for everything they need.
- lonelappde 7y agoThey don't make corporate profit because they funnel the money to management salaries and adminstration companies.
- greedo 7y agoAnd many operate as non-profits to shelter income.
- missedthecue 7y agoWhether this is true or not doesn't change my point
- x0x0 7y agoFor starters, this guy doesn't actually make the masks hospitals need. They need n95 masks; this company makes plain surgical masks.
- greedo 7y agoBecause the buying groups know that when this is over, they can go back to buying cheap PPE from overseas.
- Element_ 7y agoWhat incentive does a private hospital have to stockpile supplies for a pandemic?
- icelancer 7y agoHospitals are the reason we have shortages. There is plenty of supply. Their layers of bureaucracy and refusal to pay prices commensurate with demand are the reasons we don't have enough PPE.