Hospitals hiking cost on the poor due to ObamaCare

[Stephanie]

don't forget, they had to pass the bill to see what was in it...just amazing what comes out every day on this fascist pos law
Links in article at site

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posted at 2:41 pm on May 27, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

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There are multiple levels of irony in this New York Times report on the impact of ObamaCare on poor patients in the nation’s hospitals. Congress demanded the power to revamp the health-insurance industry and expand Medicaid in order to help the poor get better medical care for less money. In reality, the opposite appears to be happening, as hospitals attempt to force the poor into ObamaCare:

Hospital systems around the country have started scaling back financial assistance for lower- and middle-income people without health insurance, hoping to push them into signing up for coverage through the new online marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act.

The trend is troubling to advocates for the uninsured, who say raising fees will inevitably cause some to skip care rather than buy insurance that they consider unaffordable. Though the number of hospitals tightening access to free or discounted care appears limited so far, many say they are considering doing so, and experts predict that stricter policies will become increasingly common.

Why did this unintended consequence occur? In part, because ObamaCare penalizes hospitals for extending charitable assistance:

Driving the new policies is the cost of charity care, which is partly covered by government but remains a burden for many hospitals. The new law also reduces federal aid to hospitals that treat large numbers of poor and uninsured people, creating an additional pressure on some to restrict charity care.

Got that? The law that supposedly answered the fierce urgency of now in assisting the poor penalizes providers for, er, assisting the poor. They want to force low-income patients to either enroll in an ObamaCare plan, or to accept Medicaid coverage — even though fewer and fewer providers will see patients with either coverage.

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[jillian]

why does anyone care what "captain background" says? just another rightwinger suffering from Obama derangement syndrome.

if you want to convince anyone of anything, and not just do a rightwing high five, perhaps you want to source your rants more carefully, steffie.

 

[Stephanie]

why does anyone care what "captain background" says? just another rightwinger suffering from Obama derangement syndrome.

if you want to convince anyone of anything, and not just do a rightwing high five, perhaps you want to source your rants more carefully, steffie.

you might want to get over your Ods
it's gotten old and whiny
the article has LINKS IN IT try reading it

 

[Stephanie]

Snip from article...Links with video at site

These are the kinds of things that one might have foreseen had Congress not been in such a rush to pass a bill without carefully reading through its language. On that point, CNS News and the Daily Surge note a moment of supreme irony last week in the debate over how to fix the VA:




“We have not held a hearing on this legislation. And some of us are old-fashioned enough to know that maybe folks in the Senate might want to know what is in the bill before we voted on it.”

Nope, those aren’t the words of a Republican shaming the Democrats during the Obamacare debate–it’s none other than Bernie Sanders!

Taken from the Senate floor just a couple of days ago, the “Independent” senator from Vermont is suddenly urging caution when it comes to passing bills. Why? Well, it was barely two two weeks ago that we told you Bernie has been quivering in his Socialist boots over the VA scandal. As Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, the effects of a probe into the misconduct at VA hospitals has a good chance of showering a pot full of slop onto him personally, and in a tense midterm election year, he obviously does NOT want to be associated with this scandal on any level.

 

[Political Junky]

Hot Air how appropriate from Regent University.

 

[Howey]

Lol....scaling back because Obamacare is working.

Doh!

 

[Care4all]

maybe the 38 R states who chose not to expand medicaid to the poor should RETHINK their positions so that the POOR would be completely covered under the ACA through medicaid?

orrr maybe illegal immigrants should be eligible for the ACA cverage, so they don't go to emergency rooms for their care, is this what you want Steph?

 

[EconomicNudity]

I don't think people truly understand the burden healthcare is on hospitals. For every $1000 in Medicaid charges, the hospital immediately writes off 90%+. They cannot cover costs. Many states were once cost-based in their reimbursement, but that is no longer the case. Reimbursement has been drastically reduced. We are placing heavy burdens on the healthcare industry to provide quality care.

 

[william the wie]

Hospitals and especially the Mayo system my wife just retired from are exploring ways of dehospitalizing themselves to get rid of the ER. For Medicare/Medicaid it's pay up front or just get stabilized en route to St. Elsewhere right now except Mayo retirees and their spouses.

When rent seeking by both beneficiaries and caregivers really kicks in that's when the rubber will hit the road.

 

[EconomicNudity]

They are definitely pushing for outpatient services. Whereas once you could get reimbursed based on your costs, the fact patients had longer care was less detrimental. Now that everything is based on a pure DRG system, it makes less difference on the severity of the illness or procedure. The cost is fixed and hospitals will be reimbursed the same regardless if the patient stays one day or thirty days...

 

[JakeStarkey]

Hospitals hiking cost on the poor due to … ObamaCare

Read Steph's comments above carefully.

She is making the case for a single payer system for everyone.

 

[Katzndogz]

Single payer would just be the entire health care system run like the VA.

It's not going to happen.

 

[Politico]

Why would we want that? Then no one would get decent care.