As mentioned previously, hospitals here in Poland are being overrun by bailiffs as the government agrees to bail out only a few of them. One of the reasons being offered for this disastrous turn of events is that there are too many hospitals. There may well be something in this but I would find it a little easier to swallow if there had been any mention of this problem before the current crisis. “Allowing hospitals going bankrupt would be good for the hospitals and for the patients. It would allow the protection of essential equipment from bailiffs” writes Elżbieta Cichocka in Gazeta Wzborcza (Feb 9th). Where were the leading articles calling for the closure of hospitals before now? After all, this is the crusading GW, motto: “it’s not all the same to us.”