The much bragged about level I trauma center is duplicated by Methodist's center a few hundred feet away. All four hospital networks in downtown do equally good deeds that supporters only attribute to Wishard.

(Clarian is the common thread between IU, Wishard, Methodist, and recent expansion hospitals in Bloomington, Lafayette and Muncie).

If IU and Clarian want a new downtown hospital they should back up the Wishard financing of “revenue” bonds instead of “general obligation” bonds backed by taxpayers which will bypass the property tax cap and are not restricted to construction costs of a new hospital.

Clients should be shifted to St. Vincents, Methodist, Community Hospital, & Roudebush Veterans Hospitals.

I noticed that three of these hospitals are now supporting the new Wishard. No wonder. They want to protect profit margins. Do they really deserve to be treated as non profits when they shift all the needy clients to taxpayer funded Wishard and capture profits in for-profit affiliates?

The much bragged about level I trauma center is duplicated by Methodist's center a few hundred feet away. All four hospital networks in downtown do equally good deeds that supporters only attribute to Wishard.

(Clarian is the common thread between IU, Wishard, Methodist, and recent expansion hospitals in Bloomington, Lafayette and Muncie).

If IU and Clarian want a new downtown hospital they should back up the Wishard financing of “revenue” bonds instead of “general obligation” bonds backed by taxpayers which will bypass the property tax cap and are not restricted to construction costs of a new hospital.

Clients should be shifted to St. Vincents, Methodist, Community Hospital, & Roudebush Veterans Hospitals.

I noticed that three of these hospitals are now supporting the new Wishard. No wonder. They want to protect profit margins. Do they really deserve to be treated as non profits when they shift all the needy clients to taxpayer funded Wishard and capture profits in for-profit affiliates?