[sickoflibs]

RE :”Section 3025 of Obama’s mislabled Affordable Care Act calls for financially penalizing hospitals which admit sick Medicare individuals who need to return to the hospital within 30 days after their discharge. The overlord of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dr. Donald Berwick, was granted a formula to penalize hospitals. He hopes to save $15 billion a year by suppressing hospital readmissions. A 250-bed hospital could lose $1.7 million unless it blocks follow-up hospital treatment for one of three categories of illness — pneumonia, heart attack, and heart failure. Currently, Medicare pays for all rehospitalizations, except those in which patients are readmitted within 24 hours after discharge for the same conditions”

Obama-Medicare ping!

This is interesting above. How do the the hospitals refuse re-admissions without being eventually sued for it?

[Liz]

YOU GET A PRIZE IF YOU CAN FIND Accountable Care Organizations in this diagram.

Here it is----your new Obamacare healthcare system. O/Care adds over 100 new boards, commissions and programs. For example a new Medicare Commission, exempt from judicial review, will unilaterally write rules about utilization and pricing of medical devices and drugs often needed by surgeons. Many regulatory bodies will be overarching in their abilities to select and direct medical subjects concerning Tri-Care, employer group policies, Veteran’s Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.

Diligent govt personnel could not fit all of O'Care's new law’s boards, commissions, mandates, and other elements on this chart. So they created “bundles of bureaucracy.”

Seven collective symbols respectively represent clusters of four loan repayment and forgiveness programs, four other new regulatory programs, 17 insurance mandates, 19 special-interest provisions, 22 other new bureaucracies, 26 other new demonstration and pilot programs, and 59 other new grant programs.....

NOTE These 151 additions do not appear individually on the Obamacare diagram. If included, the diagram would be three times larger.

[GOPJ]

ObamaCare will be talked about - in a few years - like Social Security is talked about today.

It'll be referred to as an 'entitlement' and MUST BE CUT. Same language used today... Means testing, bankrupting, selfish, unsustainable etc. ObamaCare is nothing more than giving first class medical care to the hopelessly dependent and criminal - at the expense of the productive and responsible... Laying one more burden on the productive - and one more link of chain on the neck of the dependent.

Doctors, lawyers and those who receive political donations from these two groups will do well...

If that's what dems want, why aren't they just honest about it? It's obvious.