L.A. County: We’ll Only Consider Competition If Lives Are At Stake
“County Might Outsource Hospital” — headline, Los Angeles Times, June 28, concerning the latest plan to deal with dysfunctional Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center
Odd, isn’t it, that when Los Angeles County runs into a brick wall trying to fix a major public hospital, it proposes privatization — which in this case means “fire everyone and start over.” But when it comes to troubled schools, even a whiff of performance-based pay, terminating underperforming staff, or competition — things that we know work to improve performance in real life, every day — are squashed.
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