Posted on 07/16/2009 4:37:24 AM PDT by xtinct
BOSTON — A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law is forcing the hospital to cover too much of the expense of caring for the poor.
The hospital, Boston Medical Center, faces a $38 million deficit for the fiscal year ending in September, its first loss in five years. The suit says the hospital will lose more than $100 million next year because the state has lowered Medicaid reimbursement rates and stopped paying Boston Medical “reasonable costs” for treating other poor patients.
“We filed this suit more in sorrow than in anger,” said Elaine Ullian, the hospital’s chief executive. “We believe in health care reform to the bottom of our toes, but it was never, ever supposed to be financed on the backs of the poor, and that’s what has happened in Massachusetts.”
The central charge in the suit is that the state has siphoned money away from Boston Medical to help pay the considerable cost of insuring all but a small percentage of residents. Three years after the law’s passage, Massachusetts has the country’s lowest percentage of uninsured residents: 2.6 percent, compared with a national average of 15 percent.
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non-citizen, Egyptian contractor who has ALL of his family and workers on MA Health.
He also gets subsidized housing.
food stamps, etc.
He ONLY makes 100,000 per house he remodels...
3 years ago, he made $2 million...
Don't you read the talking points?
*SNORT* Great point! Thanks to you I found out that egg doesn't do well in the nasal cavity.
Someone at Boston Medical needs to speak out against national health care, sound the durn alarm! Joe the Plumber should go to MA, investigate and speak up. Deafening silence, whilst the Republic burns. Really, folks we need to organize (snicker).
I know lets elect Romney so that he can finish the job of bankrupting the country that Obama has started.
/SuperSarcasm Off
So much for the poor all having “Insurance”!!!
LOL, back to the future for the pols in MA....and the dull taxpayers. Who remembers their first attempt at insuring the uninsured? Oh, right..when the bill came due the state said it was too costly and wouldn’t pay. The hospitals had to sue the state to get their $$$. Its seems they’re reliving the pain all over again. It appears the voters of MA are slow learners.
It's not "on the backs of the poor." The hospital bills of paying customers get inflated to make up the difference. IOW, it's a tax, and she wants MORE.
What a lying suck-up this moron is.
That's only true, of course, for those patients who can't make the trip to a neighboring state which doesn't force some patients to subsidize others. Socialism only works when the force of government is used to restrict the freedom of those who are being forced to pay.
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