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"In Mr. Bush’s first year in office, he proposed to open or expand 1,200 clinics over five years (mission accomplished) and to double the number of patients served (the increase has ended up closer to 60 percent). With the health centers now serving more than 16 million patients at 7,354 sites, the expansion has been the largest since the program’s origins in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty, federal officials said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/health/policy/26clinics.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
So you're praising Bush for spending tax payer dollars on socialized medicine?
lolol
Ignoring the fact that there is no true competition in a marketplace where every tiny detail is mandated or otherwise controlled by political hacks who have no clue about medicine or marketplace. They know who lines their corrupt pockets, though, don't they?The unintended point this thread makes is that hospital availability, or the lack of it, is one big fat dealbreaker for the conservative notion that competition in the marketplace is some sort of savior for healthcare and its rising costs.
That should be pretty obvious.It doesn't matter what you believe, brain dead obamite.
The educated, knowledgeable world knows exactly what is going on.
I take it you were one of the "stupid" Americans Gruber is so proud of duping.
Obamacare architect discussed misleading public - CNN.com
It is not working out here. Our hospital is expandingIt's working!!
Farms are run by machines which can easily be automated.
Two generation, rural America won't need hospitals, because there will be no people.
We just have to convince them to not have kids.
Have not scrolled to read mores responses yetI predicted this:
"Since the beginning of 2010, 43 rural hospitals — with a total of more than 1,500 beds — have closed, according to data from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. The pace of closures has quickened: from 3 in 2010 to 13 in 2013, and 12 already this year. Georgia alone has lost five rural hospitals since 2012, and at least six more are teetering on the brink of collapse. Each of the state's closed hospitals served about 10,000 people — a lot for remaining area hospitals to absorb."
"These hospitals treat some of the sickest and poorest patients — those least aware of how to stay healthy. Hospital officials contend that the law's penalties for having to re-admit patients soon after they're released are impossible to avoid and create a crushing burden."
"Low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements hurt these hospitals more than others because it's how most of their patients are insured, if they are at all. Here in Stewart County, it's a problem that expanding Medicaid to all of the poorest patients -– which the ACA intended but 23 states including Georgia have not done, according to the federal government — would help, but wouldn't solve.
"They set the whole rural system up for failure," says Jimmy Lewis, CEO of Hometown Health, an association representing rural hospitals in Georgia and Alabama, believed to be the next state facing mass closures. "Through entitlements and a mandate to provide service without regard to condition, they got us to (the highest reimbursements), and now they're pulling the rug out from under us."
Rural hospitals in critical condition
That didn't take long.It's working!!
Farms are run by machines which can easily be automated.
Two generation, rural America won't need hospitals, because there will be no people.
We just have to convince them to not have kids.
Yes, let us all be crammed into these crime infested rat holes where people are stacked on top of one another like chickens on a flat bed truck being taken to the processing plant..Yes, we know. You people want to congregate the masses in compounds located in cities, and take over the vast tracts of land that you force them to evacuate.
It isn't going to happen.
The HMO's PPO's and other alphabet plans were created as a result of government interference in the field of patient care."It's never OK for these people to get lower quality medical care," says Orlowski, a practicing nephrologist (kidney doctor) and former hospital chief operating officer. "We're a big enough country to figure this out."
Fix it.
We saw the same thing when HMOs took over. Same with Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare needed massive overhauls and now works very well and within budget.
This isnn't a new problem. It was broken and getting worse long before ACA.
As problems are found with ACA, fix them. Other countries have done it and so can we.
The class envy card? Please.The closest hospital where my last child was born closed in 2005 and reopened in 2012...it is only 13 miles down the road...
I saw the same thing outside Tucson. Small clinics that served the rural poor had closed down but reopened with ACA.
Doesn't mean there aren't problems but it also doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bath water.
RWs want to throw up their hands, give their money to the 1% and pay more while getting less.
