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Clinton acknowledged problems with the law, which requires Americans to have insurance or pay a penalty. He said Americans will be better off when more people have coverage under a program he argued will begin to reduce the staggeringly high cost of health insurance.
"There are always drafting errors, unintended consequences, unanticipated issues," Clinton said in a speech from his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton Stumps For Obamacare
"unintended consequences" ???
How about this law passed in 1986 and it's "unintended consequences"!
EMTALA,
enacted by the federal government in 1986, requires that hospital emergency departments treat emergency conditions of all patients regardless of their ability to pay and is considered a critical element in the "safety net" for the uninsured, but established no direct payment mechanism for such care. Indirect payments and reimbursements through federal and state government programs have never fully compensated public and private hospitals for the full cost of care mandated by EMTALA.
In fact, more than half of all emergency care in the U.S. now goes uncompensated.
According to some analyses, EMTALA is an unfunded mandate that has contributed to financial pressures on hospitals in the last 20 years, causing them to consolidate and close facilities, and contributing to emergency room overcrowding.
According to the Institute of Medicine, between 1993 and 2003, emergency room visits in the U.S. grew by 26%, while in the same period, the number of emergency departments declined by 425.
Health care in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So how do hospitals recoup these "financial pressures"???
By padding and passing ON to Medicare sometimes overcharging by 6,000%!
FACT: Florida Hospital Tampa 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, FL 33613
In 2011 Hospital in Tampa sent Medicare 1,362 claims for CAT scan no contrast.
Each claim averaged $3,463, i.e. what the hospital billed Medicare...
The hospital's ACTUAL COSTS to perform the CAT SCAN was $57 a mark up 5,975.44%
So this "unintended consequences" of EMTALA has CREATED these gross overcharges to Medicare/insurance companies.
So guess what folks... THESE GET PASSED ON!
Solution is simple...
A 10% tax on lawyers $270 billion would pay the premium for the truly 4 million that want and need coverage!
Taxing lawyers that CAUSE the $850 billion a year doctors say are caused because they practice "defensive medicine" out of fear of lawyers' lawsuits would also reduce the $850 billion!
Each of the 4 million (see 18 million don't want insurance, 14 million are already covered by Medicaid and 10 million aren't citizens are a total of 42 million that should not be counted as "uninsured") leaving 4 million!
This would completely negate this debacle that even Clinton agrees has "unintended consequences" !
We must not let this disgusting bill destroy $100 billion a year in federal/state/local tax base while adding 400,000 to unemployment rolls!
Totally stupid to let nearly $1 trillion be messed up by such a stupid "unintended consequence" known as Obamacare!
"There are always drafting errors, unintended consequences, unanticipated issues," Clinton said in a speech from his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton Stumps For Obamacare
"unintended consequences" ???
How about this law passed in 1986 and it's "unintended consequences"!
EMTALA,
enacted by the federal government in 1986, requires that hospital emergency departments treat emergency conditions of all patients regardless of their ability to pay and is considered a critical element in the "safety net" for the uninsured, but established no direct payment mechanism for such care. Indirect payments and reimbursements through federal and state government programs have never fully compensated public and private hospitals for the full cost of care mandated by EMTALA.
In fact, more than half of all emergency care in the U.S. now goes uncompensated.
According to some analyses, EMTALA is an unfunded mandate that has contributed to financial pressures on hospitals in the last 20 years, causing them to consolidate and close facilities, and contributing to emergency room overcrowding.
According to the Institute of Medicine, between 1993 and 2003, emergency room visits in the U.S. grew by 26%, while in the same period, the number of emergency departments declined by 425.
Health care in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So how do hospitals recoup these "financial pressures"???
By padding and passing ON to Medicare sometimes overcharging by 6,000%!
FACT: Florida Hospital Tampa 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, FL 33613
In 2011 Hospital in Tampa sent Medicare 1,362 claims for CAT scan no contrast.
Each claim averaged $3,463, i.e. what the hospital billed Medicare...
The hospital's ACTUAL COSTS to perform the CAT SCAN was $57 a mark up 5,975.44%
So this "unintended consequences" of EMTALA has CREATED these gross overcharges to Medicare/insurance companies.
So guess what folks... THESE GET PASSED ON!
Solution is simple...
A 10% tax on lawyers $270 billion would pay the premium for the truly 4 million that want and need coverage!
Taxing lawyers that CAUSE the $850 billion a year doctors say are caused because they practice "defensive medicine" out of fear of lawyers' lawsuits would also reduce the $850 billion!
Each of the 4 million (see 18 million don't want insurance, 14 million are already covered by Medicaid and 10 million aren't citizens are a total of 42 million that should not be counted as "uninsured") leaving 4 million!
This would completely negate this debacle that even Clinton agrees has "unintended consequences" !
We must not let this disgusting bill destroy $100 billion a year in federal/state/local tax base while adding 400,000 to unemployment rolls!
Totally stupid to let nearly $1 trillion be messed up by such a stupid "unintended consequence" known as Obamacare!
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