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Posted on 05/21/2006 10:10:05 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
The newly installed chairman of the New Jersey Hospital Association yesterday assailed the Corzine administration's proposed $1,424-a-month bed tax and urged both suburban and urban hospitals to stand in solidarity.
The bed tax has been unpopular because while all 82 acute care hospitals would have to pay, the proceeds would benefit hospitals with the greatest numbers of poor patients, a requirement of federal policy.
The tax is expected to generate a total of $430 million, half of which would go toward the general state budget. Gov. Jon Corzine would use the remaining $215 million to qualify for matching federal funds under the Medicaid program. Those dollars would be returned to hospitals treating the largest numbers of uninsured patients, with most being situated in urban areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Then get a free match with your fedral tax dollars?
With the money split between the state govt and democratic districts?
Such a deal!
The law of economics will immediately take effect.
Hospitals, which may run at 70 percent capacity will start closing down the 30 percent of the beds they rarely use to avoid the tax.
And and there will be a dramatic increase in procedures classified as "outpatient."
the people that voted this schmuck in deserve what they got
another reason I'm leaving this welfare state.
Doogle
A "bed tax" on hospitals? What are these morons smoking? DemocRAT voters are masochists.
He's probably giving spitzer ideas.
Working to make health care more affordable.
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These people are so ******* stupid. That's a really smart way to hold down medical care costs... (/sarcasm)
They will never allow private hospitals, other than for members of the Inner Party.
Never.
Politicians are racketeers. This is racketeering. The Mafia used to run rackets such as numbers, prostitution and justify it by saying that we are just giving the people what they want which is true. What makes racketeers like Corzine so corrupt is that they are taxing what people need and have to have. If you have to be in a hospital, you do not have much choice. I have taunted politicians that I have had the extreme dipleasure of coming in contact with why don't you tax prescriptions drugs. The sicker someone gets the more tax you get. They would tax breathing if they could.
In fact those laws will pass faster than shit through a goose, and never be discussed publicly.
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Senators unmake hospital 'bed tax'
Thursday, May 11, 2006
BY SUSAN K. LIVIO
Star-Ledger Staff
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1147324359193820.xml&coll=1
Warren Hospital, with 213 beds, would pay $3.6 million and receive $1.3 million back, a crippling $2.3 million loss. Hunterdon Medical Center would lose $2 million under its $3.1 million bill and $1.1 million reimbursement. Hackettstown Regional Medical Center would lose $750,815 under a $1.7 million/$994,571 cost-to-reimbursement ratio.
http://tinyurl.com/gzwzz
In New Jersey as almost everywhere else, the productive class who are being bled dry by socialists don't vote for it - but that doesn't matter because they're outnumbered by tax recepients who vote themselves a raise.
Suffrage without qualification is a suicidal system.
Why doesn't he just tax the very air those in the garden state breathe at a penny an hour per person.
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