No agenda, we just talked about whatever they wanted to. Been listening to Yra for a long time, humbled to be asked on his show.
This is the podcast I mentioned:
“So, what's the Medicaid one trillion dollar cuts going to do? They're going to do two things. They're going to take away what's called home and community based services. So, those people that are living in their home that are 80 years old right now - these services are going to be gone. So, they're going to get sicker.
Well, what's going to happens when you get sicker? Where do you go? Well, you go to a hospital. So, you go to a hospital. Well, guess what? There's about 1,800 rural hospitals in the United States. Those are going to go away because they're highly dependent on this government funding. So, then these people are going to go to the metro hospitals.
Let's talk about that. Well, the metro hospitals right now - I just talked to a CEO of a of a major metro hospital in Seattle yesterday. They're at 80% occupancy. Now before Covid, in the United States of America the average hospital occupancy was 65%. Today it's high 70s or low 80s. Once you get to 80%, 81% you're in crisis mode, meaning that you can't handle a major virus, you can't handle a terrorist attack, or a plane crash in your area - you're at capacity, and the units that they have empty - the CEO yesterday said, I'm at 80%, but that's a misnomer, because the units I have empty are not ICU units. They're maternity units and they're pediatrics. So, my occupancy for really sick people is less.
So, why do I tell you this? I tell you this because you got sick people with home and community based services are going to go away. And you know, you have rural hospitals are going to go away. They're going to flood the major hospital systems.”
Dwayne Clark, Chairman, CEO, and founder of Aegis Living
