Court Opinion

ID: 9535014
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:44:39.137393+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:09.299568
License: Public Domain

WATHEN Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. In the final analysis, this lengthy ease turns on the meaning of a single word. Both the plain meaning of section 396-H and the statutory purposes are served if the word “adding” is given the ordinary dictionary meaning of “to combine (numbers) into a sum.” Webster’s New World Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. “add.” Thus, the Commission correctly combined the financial requirements of the hospital with the “revenue deductions” specified in section 396-F. The sum, although it results from a deduction, is not in any way at odds with' the plain meaning of section 396-H. I would *1388vacate the Superior Court and affirm the Commission.