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Now Mr. Benbow interpreted some facts for you which
I would like you to consider, and I believe you can
interpret your own facts.
First of all, he admitted that if this hospital
bond issue fails, Lowrance Hospital will be sold. Well
I'm telling you that the people of south Iredell do not
want Lowrance Hospital sold, neither do you as a taxpayer.
If you want higher hospitalization rates and if you want
higher rates when you go to the hospital, then you vote
against this bond issue.
Statistics, and these are, anybody can prove statistics::
but these are here for the opening, and I would like anyone
who would like to discuss them. The medicare reports,
Raleigh Community Hospital, which is an HCA, a for-profit
hospital, and that's not exactly what we are discussing
tonight, but it is not a county -owned hospital, 35%
higher rates than we have in Lowrance Hospital. In Florida,
two studies made, and I can show you some others if you
would like to look at them, including over in Catawba
County and in Lincoln County. In Florida, the for-profit
hospitals, 47.8% higher than the not-for-profit hospitals.
Two independently owned hospitals were 547 higher than
the non-profit hospitals. We do not want Lowrance Hospital
sold, and neither do you as a taxpayer,
Now, another thing that we need to discuss about, can
we afford these bonds. If each and every one of us had