WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.960 It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm Delia Boston Video. 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.320 Thank you very much, Kyle. As we will continue to 3 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:13.640 talk about the Stewart Hospital crisis here in Massachusetts. I mean, 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.120 we are at a very critical breaking point at this 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.839 point and this should get I think, some resolution. None 6 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:28.879 of the politicians seemed to be doing much. The governor 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:33.560 was the attorney general. But this is a situation that 8 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.119 has did not begin on her watch. And Senator Warren, 9 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.399 who prides herself on always being head of the curve 10 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:45.479 of everything, is obviously behind the eight ball in this one. 11 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:50.240 She had an ample opportunity over the last twelve years 12 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.399 or first two terms in the Senate to see what 13 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.439 was going on and to have addressed it not only 14 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:01.719 here in Massachusetts but in Washington. Yeah, this is this 15 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.519 is a this is We are not Mississippi, we are 16 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:08.159 not Alabama. Here we talk about Massachusetts as being the 17 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.200 great medical center of the universe, where people come here 18 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:16.000 from all over the world. But but what does that 19 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:18.640 say for the average resident of Massachusetts. It's one thing 20 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.079 to have mass General available for the elites of the world, 21 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.239 whether you're a movie star, a singer like Adele or 22 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.519 or the King of some emirate in the Middle East. 23 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.319 You get you can get to mass General. But who 24 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.359 gets to mass General or who can get to a 25 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.400 hospital if if all the local hospitals are closing up. 26 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.519 Mass General kind of accommodated for everybody. Let's go to 27 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:47.359 the call, Let's go to the phones. They got Tom 28 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.640 in West Virginia. Tom, he didn't want to show change 29 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.200 your last hour. You go right ahead, thanks for waiting. 30 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:52.760 Through the news. 31 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.359 I can just hear Elizabeth Warren now having a press 32 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:03.920 conference winger and saying, we've caught to change health care 33 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.319 in the state of Massachusetts. 34 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:11.280 Uh, you know, she's I thought that with Obamacare, this 35 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.080 was all going to be taken care of. Was it 36 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.639 wasn't Obamacare going to fix everything? I guess not. 37 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.639 Remember when Obama had his first State of the Union 38 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:28.280 address and it was a senator from one of the 39 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.360 Carolinas who Obama said in his State of the Union 40 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:37.800 in address that illegal immigrants will not get medical care. 41 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.240 Joe Wilson was his name, and he. 42 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:42.840 Goes he was a congressman from South Carolina. 43 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.159 Yep, yes, thank you, okay, And he yelled out YOULI, 44 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:48.919 which was very disrespectful. 45 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.719 I might add but guess what. 46 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.000 Guess who was getting medical care in the wonderful state 47 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.520 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts free of charge at the 48 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.759 rate payers. 49 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.360 Okay, just you know, Tom, you know as well as 50 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.520 I do. There's nothing is free. You may not pay 51 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:09.479 for it, but someone else is paying for it in 52 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:10.879 this case, no tax. 53 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:16.039 Bakers payers, the taxpayers and the people who have health 54 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.719 insurance are paying for these people that I'm sure are 55 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:26.680 all wonderful people. Okay, but anyway, I'm sad to see 56 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:31.400 what's going on in the state that you know, I 57 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.800 look at Massachusetts and if I go back to nineteen 58 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:41.039 eighty nine, the state had six million people population a 59 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:46.520 twelve billion dollar state budget back then. Now I look 60 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.800 at it, it is I'm going to say, seven point 61 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.800 two million people with a state budget of probably fifty 62 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.280 five billion, fifty eight billion, you know, the. 63 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.159 Eight the budget, it was just out right, So what's 64 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:03.639 three billion amongst friends? 65 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:03.879 Right? 66 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:10.360 Right? And you know something, you can't criticize Maura Heally 67 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:15.000 because obviously she leaves an alternative lifestyle and if. 68 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.480 That's got nothing to do with her, Tom, that that's 69 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:22.199 the lifestyle, has nothing to do with it. She was 70 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.879 attorney general for eight years before she became governor. However, 71 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.759 this was a plank of Elizabeth Warren. She was going 72 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.759 after all of these corporations, these greedy corporations. Well, it's 73 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.439 one thing to be a greedy corporation if you're producing 74 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.360 a product that people are buying it. If you're the 75 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.160 corporate head of the company that produces hula hoops and 76 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.040 people will spend one hundred and fifty dollars on hula hoops, 77 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.680 that's between you and those people. The government has no 78 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.680 involvement in. But when you talk about hospital care and 79 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.639 the closing of hospitals, that's her number one job. And 80 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.560 guess what, she was asleep at the switch talking about 81 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.120 Elizabeth Warren. Who's up for reelection this noment? 82 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:08.439 Well, right, and so wasn't Marquee, and so wasn't maur Heally. 83 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.120 And you know, Uh, it's sad because there's a lot 84 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.839 of people. I own a house in Brockton. I have 85 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.759 neighbors that have gone to the Brockton City Hospital, which 86 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.959 is now started up again after a fire, unfortunately, but 87 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:29.439 my mom died at the other hospital in Brockton. It 88 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.920 begins begins with an f it'll come to me in 89 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:37.560 a minute. But I just look at the state and 90 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.759 it's like, is anything going right in Massachusetts? 91 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.600 Well again, it just seems like for me. 92 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.879 For me, the irony is that people come here from 93 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.120 all over the world. I believe that Adele, the great 94 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.360 singer from Britain, who is having trouble with her with 95 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.519 her vocal courts, vocal courts, she was able to come here, 96 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:02.920 thank God, you know, the the the Emmy or the 97 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.560 of all of these, you know Middle Eastern countries who 98 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.160 can afford to fly in here on their jumbo jets. 99 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.879 Which is great, that's that's a wonderful service. But when 100 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.519 you now are closing local hospitals, so people like that 101 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.560 call O Lesta or Rob from Dunstable who apparently had 102 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.040 some sort of one hour accident and cut his foot 103 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.879 and apparently has lost a couple of toes. If that 104 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.480 hospital had not been that available, he would have had 105 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:37.560 significant problems worse than what he's dealing with. The Next 106 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:39.920 time you listen, you listen to Elizabeth Warren make a 107 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.560 speech about how that she's going to stay on top 108 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.439 of this and make sure that there's no financial abuses 109 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.399 and that the little guy who's being crushed or whatever 110 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:51.160 she or being hammered. Wasn't that her phrase when she 111 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.439 first you know, if you're being hammered, you know, well, 112 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.040 these people aren't being hammered, these people are being ignored. 113 00:06:59.120 --> 00:06:59.399 Well. 114 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.720 And she she's the one who uh did the phony. 115 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.399 I'm going to try and relate with the working people 116 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.000 of Let me grab a beer and then she grabs 117 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:10.079 a mechelode light. 118 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:11.439 Are you're kidding me? 119 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.600 If you're gonna pretend you're from Boston, you don't grab 120 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.800 a michealode light? All right, you grab a Samuel Adam. 121 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.079 Oh stop it, all right? Bending people like. 122 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.920 No ads for seam Adams for me would be a 123 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.240 course like, oh I love Sham Adams. All right, Thanks, 124 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.680 thanks Tom, appreciate you call. I have a great night. 125 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.199 Good night. We'll keep rolling here. Six one seven, two, 126 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.560 five four to ten thirty six one seven, nine three 127 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:43.759 one ten thirty. This is a crisis. This is a crisis. 128 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.800 It's a crisis that developed, that didn't develop overnight. Where 129 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.199 were our political leaders? And I'm focusing on Senator Elizabeth 130 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.160 Warren because one of her uh plat planks of her 131 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.160 platform when she was running I'm going to represent the 132 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.079 people who are getting hammered. Yeah, people are being hammered. Well, 133 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:06.439 these people aren't being hammered, they're basically being ignored. Give 134 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.040 us call six one seven ninety or six one seven two, 135 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:11.120 five four ten thirty. 136 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:11.800 Uh. 137 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:13.839 I'm late to the party in this story. I should 138 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:15.839 have been doing this a couple of months ago. But 139 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:18.360 now as I thought about it, I said, and this 140 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:23.839 is not a look. If you have if your medical 141 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.839 care is all in line, and your doctor is UH 142 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.560 is available to you, and you don't have to worry 143 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.519 about getting out a doctor, you're fine. But the people 144 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.360 who are in a situation of desperation tonight, and who 145 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.320 will be in a real situation situation of desperation as 146 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.320 these hospitals close, that's who I want to hear from tonight. 147 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.120 Join the conversation back on Night's Side right after this. 148 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:53.279 Hold on a sec, I'm gonna get me apear now 149 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.159 bent to Dan Ray live from the window World to 150 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.360 Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 151 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.120 Get back to the phones. Here we got Bill and Lowell. Bill, 152 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:04.039 youan next on Nightside. Welcome? How are you sir? 153 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:05.759 Hi? 154 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:06.039 Dan? 155 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.639 Hi? Bill, Let's hear your take on this. I can 156 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:13.399 hear you find you want to you on a speakerphone. 157 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.240 Well, you know what, I have a speakerphone on my 158 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.840 cell phone, but I attached a different speakerphone for it. 159 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.559 Oh that's wonderful. Okay, Bill, I can hear you. Go 160 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:23.120 right ahead. 161 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.320 Okay, So I'm just gonna hear me. You know what, 162 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.759 I think. It starts from the top where they our 163 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.000 government allowed all these illegals to come into our country, 164 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.279 and they are draining the system, even even the hospitals, 165 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.000 because they get free health care. We don't. 166 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.639 Well that's true too. I mean, you know that's a factor. Okay, 167 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:51.679 that is clearly a factor, no question about that. Okay. 168 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.879 But but also did no one see this coming? Where 169 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.519 was Elizabeth Warren on this? I mean, wasn't she the 170 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.360 person who's going to protect protect the little guy from 171 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.759 getting hammered? Remember those campaign you know, vote for Elizabeth 172 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.519 and everything. All the time Obamacare was supping to solve this. 173 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:16.080 Remember again, we're not Mississippi, We're not Massachusetts. We are 174 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.279 We're not Missippi, We're not element We're in Massachusetts. We 175 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.559 are the center of the universe when it comes to 176 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.879 medical care. But it's all going to go away. 177 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:29.960 And you know what, Dan, I start where I am 178 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.240 living right now. I started off five years ago, paying 179 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.240 seventeen sixty five a month. Now I'm up to twenty 180 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:42.360 three fifteen. How am I supposed to keep up with that? 181 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.679 You know, it's not easy, but you live. 182 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.519 In a one party state. The people, the people who 183 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.399 are who are controlling the switch, they're asleep at the switch, 184 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.679 and now we have this crisis. They don't anticipate problems. 185 00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:59.679 They react to problems that they've ignored for years. 186 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.519 I've never liked Elizabeth Warren. 187 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.039 Never find me one person I really likes her. I've 188 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.120 never I mean, she's not a likable person. But her 189 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.320 stick was, oh I will protect you. I'll protect you 190 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:18.799 from from the from the the greedy corporate chieftains. Well 191 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:19.879 this was a pretty. 192 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:27.399 Damn She's protecting herself, she's protecting her pockets. 193 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:36.320 You know, remember in November, my friend, Oh I. 194 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:41.399 Will, I will Because it's like, you know, I don't 195 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.080 understand how people vote for these people that are going 196 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.559 to do us harm. 197 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.559 Well, I think what happens is they get a good 198 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.240 ad agency she comes across. You know, I'm for the 199 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.879 little guy who's been hammered I'm for the little guy 200 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.320 who's been hammered. That was what all she said, and 201 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:01.279 people she must be good, and now how good she 202 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:01.759 really is? 203 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:07.320 Yeah, yeah, it's all a bunch of life. Did I 204 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:07.919 say you enough? 205 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.600 I think you said quite enough. And he did a 206 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.399 good job. Bill. I appreciate it. Thank you much. 207 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:15.320 You're welcome by great. 208 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:17.960 Have a great night. Okay, folks, I'm not asking to 209 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:20.039 say anything. You can say what you want to say. 210 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:24.279 This is simply providing you an opportunity. Next up, Kathy 211 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.919 is in Lunenburg. Kathy, welcome back. How are you tonight? 212 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:33.200 Good Dan. I'm calling specifically about out here in central 213 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:37.080 mass which is not that far from Boston. We are 214 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:42.879 less than an hour away. But yet, when the delegation 215 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.720 went and had a press conference in Dorchester by Carney, 216 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.879 I believe Elizabeth Warren was there, Ed Markey was there, 217 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.679 Michelle wou was there. Governor Healy was there with her 218 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.279 big words. The following day there was a press conference 219 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:05.279 at Airt Town Hall. Elizabeth Warren sent an intern, a 220 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:10.159 young intern, not one of the others, came out to 221 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:14.759 ay Or town Hall. That is an a bottom disgrace. 222 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.519 It's mind boggling to me that you know out here 223 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.480 where it will now take more than thirty minutes for 224 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.960 some people to get to a hospital, is being totally 225 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:36.600 totally ignored and disregarded. It's absolutely shameful. What is going on. Well, 226 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:40.000 that's against the beauty of the area of Massachusetts is 227 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.000 ignored by the lawmakers. 228 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.639 Well, that's that's the beauty of what we're doing here 229 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:46.279 on Nightside. 230 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.360 Okay, I know, and I thank you for that. 231 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.000 No, no, no, no, that's my job. And I apologized earlier 232 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.360 and I meant it honestly. Okay, I should go out 233 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:57.960 just two weeks ago, but I was confused by it, 234 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:00.440 and I've read up on it a little bit today, 235 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.440 thought about it during the time when I was off, 236 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:04.320 and I said, I got to jump on this story 237 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.200 because there's people out there who are hurting. 238 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:07.480 Right. 239 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.799 I don't know what the solution is. I don't pretend 240 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.000 to know what the solution is, but I can tell 241 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.320 you that the political class here in Massachusetts is not 242 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:19.559 providing any leadership or solution on this Nice words press 243 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:24.480 releases press releases from Stewart that says, we're concerned about 244 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.879 the patients and we're doing everything we can how much 245 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.840 money is Stuart spending on their PR agents. And then 246 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.039 you have the politicians who have their their PR agents 247 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.360 who tell everybody bad. 248 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:42.759 They're all sad. Two things, two important points I wanted 249 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:46.519 to make for any of the listeners. There is a 250 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.240 hearing on Thursday. The Department of Public Health has scheduled 251 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.320 the public hearing at Devons on the Nashoba closing. That's 252 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.879 this Thursday to fifteenth at six pm at Devon's Community 253 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.600 Center when Andrew's Parkway on Devons and beyond that there's 254 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.200 going to be a virtual hearing I guess on Monday, 255 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:11.120 August nineteenth at six pm. So if someone can't make 256 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.759 the hearing on the fifteenth, then they feel strongly there 257 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.080 is going to be a virtual hearing thereafter. So you know, 258 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.080 when there are signs popping up all over the region, 259 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:25.679 I'll tell you there's a group of people it's called Savenshoba. 260 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.799 What is it called again, Yeah, Nashoba Lives. And they're 261 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.000 on Facebook and there are a great bunch of people 262 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.879 that work for Nashoba and they're putting signs everywhere trying 263 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.639 to get people educated with what's going on. But it's 264 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.919 it's really going to have a severe impact on this region. 265 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.960 And I just you know it's going to be life 266 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.840 and death, or I'll tell you this. 267 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.200 Here's my Probre's problem. All the politicians now they can 268 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.320 hold all the news conferences they want. The horse has 269 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:03.320 left the la. Okay, they were sleeping the switch. And 270 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:09.480 I hold Elizabeth Warren number one, number one responsible for 271 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.080 this because this was her pitch when she was when 272 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.879 she was running for the US Center in twenty twelve. 273 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.159 The little guy's being hammered, and I'm here to protect 274 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.519 the little guy. No, she's not right, She's proven it. 275 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:25.200 Thank god. 276 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.679 We have choices in November, John Deaton, Bobby Antonellis and 277 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:30.440 Ian Kane. 278 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.399 Well whatever, whatever you know, she's up for reelection. People 279 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:36.559 need to send to a message. It's as simple as 280 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:40.639 that for anybody. I'm not here at a campaign against anybody. 281 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.600 But when when someone doesn't produce, when someone promises and 282 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.840 they over promise it under deliver, it would be time 283 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:48.720 for change in my. 284 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.840 Opinion, Agree, agree, agree, All right. 285 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.639 Thanks Kathy. Great to hear you hanging there. Okay, I 286 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.080 thought about you today when I decided to do this topic, 287 00:16:58.080 --> 00:16:59.480 because I knew you were concerned about it. 288 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.879 Thanks, thank you, good night. 289 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.079 We'll take a quick break. Coming right back on Nightside. 290 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:05.960 One line at six one, seven, two, five, four to 291 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.599 ten thirty. One line at six one, seven, nine three 292 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.799 one ten thirty. I may cut this off at eleven 293 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.000 o'clock tonight. I want to hear from you. Let's light 294 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.759 these phone lines up. Coming back on Nightside. 295 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:23.920 You're on Nightside with Dan Ray onn Youbzy, Boston's news radio. 296 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:26.599 I'm going to go next to Michelle in Burlington who 297 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.160 has been working or has worked at Michell But Michelle, 298 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:31.000 welcome to Nightside. 299 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:33.880 How are you, hi, Dan, thank you for taking my call. 300 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:34.799 I'm good, Thank. 301 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:36.960 You, You're welcome. Go right ahead. Tell us what you know. 302 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:37.279 So. 303 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.880 I've been a nurse at Misheubar. I currently still work 304 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.039 there for twenty years. I love my job. I love 305 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:51.240 that community hospital. We serve seventeen communities, between fifteen and 306 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:55.200 seventeen communities, probably about one hundred and twenty one hundred 307 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.640 and twenty five thousand people. The location if you look 308 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.640 at an up where we're located. The communities that we 309 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:12.880 serve from Ashby townshend Peparl Groton westward Lunenberg, obviously, Air Groton, Dunstable, Well, 310 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:17.920 go all over, Shirley, Havard, Lancaster. I can just keep going. 311 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.720 And the most important thing is this closure will absolutely 312 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:28.200 positively cripple our EMS system. So there's a lot of 313 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:32.559 elderly in these towns. There's I keep thinking of this 314 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:37.960 one particular place in Townsend, like on Dudley Road, and 315 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.720 there's like old old people housing, and there's some in 316 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.359 Pepperrell in the summer air and surely, but anyway, I 317 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:47.519 think of those folks way out there in towns, and 318 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.880 how it's it's you know, a good twenty five minutes 319 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:53.160 to get in the show, and how how when you 320 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.240 are in a medical emergency, time is of the essence, 321 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.480 and patients would come to the show. But and you know, 322 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.440 if we don't have the means to care for you, 323 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:05.400 we will, we will transfer you out. We have a 324 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:09.400 helicopter pad. I could tell you stories and stories and 325 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:13.359 stories of beautiful life saving things that have happened. Doctors 326 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:17.000 across the hall wheeling their patient to the emergency room 327 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.240 having massive mis and we get them in the helicopter 328 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.680 and send them to where they need to be to 329 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.160 get the care that they need. Just again, time is 330 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:26.720 of the essence. And and you know when somebody falls 331 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.680 and breaks a hip and they have to drive from 332 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:34.160 Townsend in a bumpy ambulance to down route too to 333 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.359 get to Conquered, to get to Emerson Hospital, Oh my goodness. 334 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.880 And then what are we doing to those local emergency rooms? 335 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:47.440 You're talking Leminster and Emerson. And if you're on Westford, 336 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.480 you might be going to Lowell General. And those places 337 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:52.720 are already packed and they cannot handle. They're already feeling 338 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.519 the suffering of our closure. And when I'm not even 339 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:57.119 closed yet. 340 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.519 Well you can hear Michelle, you can hear voice. 341 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.799 I am so just straw. You know what, Dan, It's 342 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.799 I love my job. I love taking care of patients. 343 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.480 I love what I do. But Stewart has absolutely positively 344 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:18.640 crippled us. We were telling management for years that our 345 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.759 beds were broken, equipment was breaking, we weren't getting replaced. 346 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:27.079 It was almost like a strategic starvation of our economic 347 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:33.839 foundations at Nashoba. So when when the thought of you 348 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:36.400 ask any nurse in any bost Any hospital doesn't have 349 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:40.200 to be a Boston the hospital, the how important it 350 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:43.200 is to have an ICU, we have six icy beds. 351 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:47.680 Dan we have twenty Jerry psyche beds. Do you know 352 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:50.400 how hard it is to place mental health patients, let 353 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:55.640 alone geriatric mental health? And we're closing, like, why isn't 354 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.279 the Department of Mental Health like up in arms? Where 355 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:02.079 where is everybody? I get politics, I get it, and 356 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.839 I'm so disgusted I can't even It blows my mind 357 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:07.880 when we're talking about this. 358 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:12.759 There's absolutely no politics here. I mean, this is this is, 359 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:17.680 this is nothing nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats, liberals, conservatives, 360 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:22.359 all of us, whatever our political pedigree is, whatever a 361 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:28.200 political philosophy is, all of us at some point need professional, 362 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.000 high level medical care in a convenient way. I mean, 363 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:35.160 people should not have to drive into Boston and try 364 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.720 to find a parking space near my mass General or 365 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:40.920 in a parking garaguate masth General for something that could 366 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.720 be handled by a community hospital. I hold Elizabeth Warren 367 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:51.559 uh primarily responsible for this. It's as simple as that. 368 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.480 I really see it that way. 369 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.839 So it's definitely there's definitely yes. People people of higher 370 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:03.160 care ever knew what was going on, what Steward did. 371 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.279 If you did some investigating and read a little bit. 372 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:07.920 And this is what I wish somebody would do, dive 373 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:12.200 deep and look at what Steward has done. It's almost 374 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.720 like I keep saying that we were us Ann Kearney 375 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.599 or the sacrificial lambs in this in this whole economic break. 376 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.480 Why I don't you know? What you know blows my 377 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:29.039 mind is is when when we as nurses spoke to media, 378 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:31.400 they were out there when we first you know, announced 379 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:34.759 the closure, and of course they don't they don't play 380 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.880 what you actually say. But anyway, but some of the 381 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:39.920 numbers that they came across, they said that we only 382 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.200 had eleven eleven patients at that particular time. We had 383 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:45.240 like thirty seven patients in our hospital. 384 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:46.920 We were thriving, we were busy. 385 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:52.359 I don't know why the numbers are skewed reported wrong. 386 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.720 We do have DPH coming in weekly, checking checking, honest, 387 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:58.559 do you have what you need? You do you have 388 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:01.000 enough staff members? Do you have you know? Because we 389 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:06.359 had canceled procedures because we didn't have Stewart didn't pay 390 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:09.000 the bills. So there are certain vendors that couldn't get 391 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:10.799 certain equipment we couldn't get. I mean, it was just 392 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:12.440 it was Honestly, it was just awful. 393 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:16.400 Thanks so much, Michelle. I don't know if you've called 394 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:21.000 Michelle before, but the passion in your voice is inspiring. 395 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:24.200 And I'm not going to forget this call. I promise you, okay, 396 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:26.960 and we'll stay on this. We're trying to get some 397 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:29.440 experts on this later on this week. There's a guy 398 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:30.559 I'm gonna. 399 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.279 I'm gonna get my fellow nurses calling you. 400 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:36.359 Okay, all right, Thanks so much, Michelle, appreciate. 401 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.960