i'm really just going to remind
us what hospital capacity use to
look like and what it looks like
now, largely to make the point
that as we started discussing,
the issues of cost and quality
are not going to be resolved
simply by how much we have in
our particular plate.
ok.
who is going to decide about
what our capacity should be and
what kinds of services we are
going to provide?
we are talking about a pretty
small number of hospitals in the
city right now.
this is just to remind us that
in 1960, which was kind of the
last round that we had, when
health planning was somewhat
more in vogue, there were 26
hospitals in san francisco.
at the time, we were concerned
that we were over bedded, that