Socialized Medicine in Portland

As much as socialised medicine would be a good thing, that article doesn’t really give much idea of just _what_ Metro is planning to do with hospitals. I don’t know if that’s the fault of the reporter, or if the person they talked to didn’t know what was being planned, or if even there was a plan.

The only way it (a Metro-wide arrangement of socialized medicine) would work would be if the state backed it, but the rest of the state already has a pretty sweet arrangement in that critical cases are already airlifted into Portland. I suspect it’s more of a case of trying to work around hospitals and doctors who won’t perform or refer certain types of procedures by holding the tax-free zoning club over them.