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The mayor and his health department czar have been inconsistent and incompetent throughout this crisis. This is just another example of their haphazard and ill conceived approach that will ultimately put literally hundreds of businesses into bankruptcy. The mayors recent reference to “foot loose“ and dancing shows that he totally lacks empathy for these business owners. A real jokester that Hogsett.
Both Mayor Hogsett and I (as your former Indiana State Health Commissioner and as a current candidate for Governor) have complete confidence in the judgment of Dr. Virginia Caine and her team. She perhaps the most experienced Public Health leader of any major American city, and unlike the Editorial Board of the IBJ, she serves on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine, specializing in Infectious Disease. She knows what she is doing and has the safety of the public, not individual economic concerns, as her first priority. Many factors must be evaluated when making life and death decisions, and she knows them well. Let her do her job.
It is easy to criticize the health department, since I don’t think there is any transparency. I dare you to try to contact the HHC board. I managed to do it after several hours of research. Go to the Marion County Web site, and the newest technology they employ seems like it is a voice mail box. The Marion county HHC controls, what I would guess to be about $1 Billion a year in revenue, from a large hospital, nursing homes all over the state and Marion County tax payers dollars, but who would know. I dare you to find a published annual report. People should be outraged that the board of health and the Public Health Department look like they are starved for money and now it seems expertise, or at least consistency, when it seems like they are running a nursing home scam to feed the hospital.
The Mayor, the city county council and, the Marion County board of Commissioners are the ones that appoint HHC board members. Did you even know we had a Marion County Board of Commissioners? So if there are problems they can always blame the other guys.
It is a convoluted mess with little or no accountability mangled by political factions, and I suspect it is a by-product of the mess that created Uni-Gov, and it is time it got some attention and accountability.