New York City emergency rooms are always swamped with patients, many of whom are lying on stretchers in the hallways. When a health care provider passes, some will raise their hands, wave, shout or try in any way they can to get a doctor, nurse or physician’s assistant’s attention. All U.S. ERs must take all comers, and there is no shut-off valve at the triage desk, so despite how clogged it is, still the patients come.
Ken Langone is not someone who seeks special attention for himself; in fact, he prides himself on his humble roots. He was evacuated down the stairs by stretcher during Superstorm Sandy back in 2012 during a hospitalization for pneumonia along with many others and was not given special treatment.
In fact, it was Langone, in one of his greatest philanthropic moves, who spearheaded the drive to raise the money to make NYU Grossman School of Medicine tuition-free. As part of this effort, he donated $100 billion himself in 2019. It was this trend-setting move that was soon copied by other medical schools and took the pressure off so many of our future doctors around the country, allowing them to altruistically choose primary care medical careers for lesser salaries than some specialists receive without the chokehold of hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition loan repayments hanging over their head. Contrast this with the Biden plan to give $10,000 in tuition relief for everyone, currently blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court as they deliberate on its future, another shortsighted government payout without an endgame or long-term strategy attached.

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