Closing King-Harbor isn't the answer

I LIVE IN WASHINGTON and work in New York City, so I have no personal stake in the raging debate over the fate of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. But as the federal government's administrator of Medicare and Medicaid from 2001 to 2003, I became very familiar with Los Angeles' public hospitals — and with King in particular — as we crafted a $1.8-billion "bailout" of the system.

By Thomas Scully

June 15, 2007