Posted on 12/29/2009 9:48:34 AM PST by truthandlife
About 75 of the 127 physician-owned hospitals under construction won't meet an Aug. 1, 2010 deadline on expansion requirements in the revised Senate health reform bill, according to an informal count by Physician Hospitals of America.
The current Senate bill prohibits physician-owned hospitals from adding beds, ORs or procedure rooms, and the same language exists in the House bill. Both bills state that physician-owned hospitals must meet four specific requirements to expand.
PHA officials say no physician-owned hospital meet all four criteria.
Even with a six-month extension past the original deadline of Feb. 1, 2010, PHA Executive Director Molly Sandvig said winter weather will hamper construction in northern states. In addition, she said, all projects would have to be Medicare-certified by the deadline.
Sandvig said the PHA would continue to lobby for changes in the next step of the bill-making process.
PHA officials want to move the deadline to Jan. 1, 2014, and soften the growth restrictions on existing physician- owned hospitals.
If the language isn't changed, Sandvig said physician-owned projects that can't meet the deadline – as well as existing hospitals that want to grow – would have five to seven alternatives, most of which involve restructuring ownership and ceding some control to non-physicians.
"None of these (alternatives) are very pretty," she said.
One option would allow physicians to own the building and land but not the hospital, allowing them to operate under a management agreement. Another would mean switching to a non-profit foundation somewhat like the Mayo Clinic.
In both instances, Sandvig said, there would be some loss of control as well as reduced income.
What a mess they people are going to make of the entire system. Unbelievable!
Its not passed yet.
Only communists think they can lower health care costs by restricting the number of hospitals, beds and other facilities.
Right now we have US based Drs building hospitals in foreign countries to supply medical tourism. I guess they know where to put the investment.
More socialist/communist control by a Congress inhabited by dozens of controllers and liberals. These people need to be defeated, and defeated soundly. These are a start: “Cornhusker Kickback” Nelson, “Specter” Specter, “Dufus” Dorgan, “Irish Cabinboy” Dodd. But we are still just less than a year away from the next election, so we must continuously keep up the pressure so the American people will not forget the corruption these people have fomented at or expense.
We also need to be very specific about what we want: http://pushbackuntil.com/Mandates.htm. Because we need laws to protect us from what Congress has become: an ideological club.
FASCISM is such a nasty way to conduct a Free Republic.... /s
Oh thats nice. Let us not expand healthcare let us ration whats already there.
Unbelievable! First they instantly add 30 million additional patients to the national healthcare system without any plan to increase the facilities and professionals to handle them, then they make it impossible for physicians to expand or build hospitals. Dear Leader says you all must get in line and wait.
Using what rationale?
So, for these hospitals, this will be an Ex Post Facto law. Where did we read about those again?
From WHERE does Congress get the authority to do this!?!
I can see a municipality saying - “You can’t expand your facility because it doesn’t meet our development plan” or some such. I don’t even think States have the authority to stipulate how someone runs there business like this. The FEDERAL government has no business or right to operate in this space at all!
This has to be unconstitutional on it’s face.
This is going to be a complete disaster.
Rationale? RATIONALE? Seriesly? Democrats using rationale? OK
The ‘rationale is to destroy all that is good and free in this country, rendering the population a mix of 99% serfs/dependants and 1% elites/masters.
There ya go.
so I guess we will have an explosion in physician wife-owned hospitals??
What if the physician-owned hospital refuses payments from Medicare or Medicaid? What would the federal government’s claim of jurisdiction rest upon? Also, since when does the federal government determine the ownership structure of a private company? Isn’t that a state matter?
Agreed.
I’m just curious what line they’re feeding - that they think we’ll swallow...
Line? The line is “HEY, it’s FREE!!!!!!!”
And then they bury the words of your destruction in it as you line up for FREE stuff.
Liberals, shouldn’t let them breed.
Fascism is a messy business.
Yeah, the feds are definitely fixing the mess they created....not...
"Mess" is hardly an adequate noun. I can think of one more apt alternative, but it can't be used in this forum. Suffice to say it's a compound noun which begins with "cluster" and rhymes with "duck". Being a term of seemingly military origin, it is sometimes abbreviated as "Charlie Foxtrot". "Compound Fiasco" might be a decorous stand-in. (But it really will be a total c******f***.)
yes,it will be a complete disaster.
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