Peninsula Hospital Center - Protesters Take Over Lobby - Hospital Closings in NYC

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Approximately 200 union employees, residents of Far Rockaway, in Queens, and local officials, gathered in the rain outside Peninsula Hospital Center, across the bay from JFK Airport. Peninsula Hospital Center has filed a plan to shut its doors. The hospital's owner is embroiled in a political and financial scandal, but employees and residents are worried about the threat to public health, should the hospital's closure plan be approved.

Attendees of the rally braved the rain, then, once the rally had ended, stormed into one of the lobbies of the hospital, until hospital officials called the police, to clear the lobby of its own employees.

In the time that Christine Quinn had been speaker of the City Council, eight hospitals (not counting Peninsula) have closed. If Peninsula closes, it would mark the ninth hospital to close under Speaker Quinn's watch.

http://christine-quinn-sold-out.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-city-hospital-closi...

http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2011/07/quinn-nyc-drop-dead.html

This week, President Obama agreed to severe budget cuts to social safety net programs, that underpin the social contract we make with our government and amongst ourselves. More budget cuts to Medicaid and Medicare will lead to a further collapse of our healthcare system. Is Christine Quinn in Bermuda with Mayor Michael Bloomberg each time a hospital closes in New York City ? Is President Obama surfing in Hawaii each time a hospital closes in America ?

If we obediently listen to people, who are in power (the same people who work for us, the very same people who are closing our hospitals), telling us to leave the lobby of a closing hospital, then it just makes it that much easier for the New York State Department of Health/Christine Quinn to keep closing hospitals.

Video copyright 2011 by Louis Flores. All Rights Reserved.

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• Social Security
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• hospital closings
• hospital bankruptcies

[Akahseles]

"you have more power when you stay inside." interesting how people think sometimes :S

[OSUNWURAOLA]

You have to look at the bigger picture in New York City, and union Hospitals. They want these institutions closed down period, It is a hughe attack on union hospitals.

[kackawin]

This is distorted information and plays on the emotions deriving from the loss of PHC.