Posted on 11/2/2010, 3:52:25 PM by Qbert
This is not the story that Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., wants to see on the news the night before Election Day. It's about the hospital where I was born:
With St. Joseph County’s unemployment rate still sitting above ten percent, things could be getting worse thanks to cuts at Memorial Hospital. Those cuts began back in June and hospital leaders say there’s no end in sight.
While hospital leaders admit the economy sparked this problem, it says the Obama Health Care Reform Act gave the hospital a one-two punch. While more people may soon get more health coverage, Obama’s plan cuts reimbursement dollars for hospitals at a time administrators say they could use them most.
If you roll up a chair and type your way to Memorial Hospital’s web site, you can click your way through 45 active job openings. Pay the hospital a visit and you’ll see it’s still getting patients and paying for construction improvements. So why would it cut nearly fifty jobs in just five months?
…In a statement the hospital said:”Health care reform in its current state has already started to cut reimbursement rates to hospitals across the region and the country and we expect that reality to get worse moving forward.”
It’s a catch 22; increased health insurance at the cost of hospital staffing.
Oh, but don’t worry, things will get better….says…a high school student!
“I think it should get better as time goes on. Once the system really gets going and the bill picks up speed, I think it should get better,” Washington High School junior Gabriellee Lee said after completing a shadow day at Memorial Hospital.
12 years in public education and we get THIS?!?
Hasn’t the fedzilla already warned companies not to blame Obamacare in public?
“I think it should get better as time goes on..I think it should get better...”
I think they’re hypnotizing these students.
Stupid is as stupid does...
“Memorial Hospital”
Born there as well.
Memorial Hospital may end up looking like the sample street plant,go Studebaker.
To the Parents of Gabrielle,
you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing your daughter to become a mindless moron, You should also immediately file a Federal Lawsuit against the Government School your child went to for FRAUD.
Put a ring in her nose [if she doesn't already have one] and lead her away. Some people are as dumb as an ox.
Appreciate the sentiments, but a lawsuit would go nowhere because...the parents have no “standing”!!
In case you don’t know, this lack of “standing” crapola is the default position for activist judges when they know the result of a lawsuit would be contrary to their agenda.
The best bet, I think, is for the parents to take the bull by the horns and straighten her out, if it’s not too late.
sorry i forgot, maybe we should push for an amendment to the Constitution Guaranteeing the right to petition for redress of grievances.
“Obama’s plan cuts reimbursement dollars for hospitals at a time administrators say they could use them most. “
Two hospitals (including the one I work for) in my area in central Massachusetts have recently had layoffs too! Reimbursements to hospitals have been reduced and will be further reduced as Obamacare kicks in. At the same time hospitals have to provide more and more free services to illegals...
And here I always thought that the smartest people in the world are teenage girls. (sarcasm)
Some teenagers seem mindless, but some love to make speeches about everything that is wrong with the world. Many of these teens grow up to be good liberals, and put their faith in liberal policies and big government to solve every perceived social and economic problem in the world.
I was born at Memorial Hospital as well.
“Memorial Hospital”
Born there as well.
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