Good Business Plan Beset By Metro Shell Game
Published: August 5, 2002
Metropolitan Hospital has a potentially tremendous business plan for a new campus in southern Kent County. The plan, however, is becoming more convoluted with each phase of state approval. One wonders whether it is in the business of health care or has reshaped as a political entity as it is voluntarily putting itself in the midst of widening statewide political wars wrapped with health care woes. Mixing politics and health care is bad medicine, a point made considerably clear when then President Bill Clinton invited his wife to prepare solutions to the looming national crisis in the ’90s. It is no less abhorrent in Republican-led Michigan where model programs could provide enormous potential.

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