Posted on 01/19/2013 11:21:23 PM PST by kathsua
The Obamacare legislation contains no safeguards to stop taxpayer funding of abortions or abortion businesses. Now, a Pennsylvania hospital has indicated it will stop delivering babies thanks to Obamacare.
The Obamacare law is causing physicians to cut the number of patients they see or leave their practices entirely — resulting in problems like this one. As AP reports:
A southwestern Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can’t afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.
The Windber Medical Center, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is losing two obstetricians and two others are shifting their focus more to gynecology.
Hospital officials say the population of women of child-bearing age is dropping and that the number of births the hospital would be called upon to perform isn’t enough for it to provide the service in the face of lower reimbursements under the federal Affordable Care Act.
The hospital delivered about 200 babies each year since restarting its obstetrics program in 2005.
Officials aren’t sure how many jobs will be lost.
This situation will only grow worse as the Obama administration and liberal advocacy groups work to push people into Obamacare.
Nestled within the “individual mandate” in the Obamacare act — that portion of the Act requiring every American to purchase government — approved insurance or pay a penalty — is an “abortion premium mandate.” This mandate requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay a separate premium from their own pockets to fund abortion. As a result, many pro-life Americans will have to decide between a plan that violates their consciences by funding abortion, or a plan that may not meet their health needs.
As a knowledgeable pro-life source on Capitol Hill informed LifeNews, as authorized by Obamacare, “The final rule provides for taxpayer funding of insurance coverage that includes elective abortion” and the change to longstanding law prohibiting virtually all direct taxpayer funding of abortions (the Hyde Amendment) is accomplished through an accounting arrangement described in the Affordable Care Act and reiterated in the final rule issued today.
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“To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer,” the pro-life source informed LifeNews. “The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered. As described in the rule, the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to pay directly subsidize abortions.”
The pro-life advocate told LifeNews that the final HHS rule mentions, but does not address concerns about abortion coverage in “multi-state” plans administered by the Federal Government’s Office of Personell Management (OPM).
“There is nothing in the Affordable Care Act to prevent some OPM (government administered) plans from covering elective abortion, and questions remain about whether OPM multi-state plans will include elective abortion,” the pro-life source said. “If such plans do include abortion, there are concerns that the abortion coverage will even be offered in states that have prohibited abortion coverage in their state exchanges.”
The final rule indicates: “Specific standards for multi-state plans will be described in future rulemaking published by OPM…”
Set to go into effect in 2014, the provisions found in Section 1303 of the Obamacare Act compel enrollees in certain health plans to pay a separate abortion premium from their own pocket, without the ability to decline abortion coverage based on religious or moral objection.
The United States of America according to a degenerate.
Like Nancy Pelosi said..”It’s a Christmas present to the American people” and it will be shoved down your throat whether you want it or not.
Lets put this in the right prospective. All of these delivery-specialists finish med school with loans to pay. They have a skill which typically pays a fair sum. Hospitals know this and to be ‘qualified’, you have to maintain a department with several of these guys. You, as the hospital HR recruiter...have to go out and look at resumes...figure what you can pay, and offer some good benefits along the way.
For years, the system worked.
Then along came ObamaCare. It dictates a number of things, and limits where hospitals can run up their charges. So you examine the financial path as county hospital. After a while, you know that you can’t clear enough profit to pay the delivery-specialists. You take the obvious cue, and decline to run such a department in your hospital.
Now, within a year....my humble guess....the same hospital will likely note that they will have limits on how many Medicare patients they will attend to. You will need to be on a privileged list to have their support.
More county hospitals will realize the same problems and note their limits are starting to be created. All of these can point toward ObamaCare as the trigger of the issue.
But let’s add one last comment here. Up until the 1920s....95 percent of all American women delivered with mid-wives, and only the problem issues got real doctor service. When we commercialized hospital care and put fancy hospitals in every county....did we find suddenly the mid-wife concept started to disappear over the next decade or two.
ObamaCare might have accidentally done this, but the truth is that most women could accomplish childbirth without the delivery-specialist.
Might be a good idea to implement on our southern borders. Perhaps we will reduce the number of “natural born citizens”.
Might be a good idea to implement on our southern borders. Perhaps we will reduce the number of “natural born citizens”.
ObamaCare might have accidentally done this, but the truth is that most women could accomplish childbirth without the delivery-specialist.
Until your wife develops bleeding or other complications then that midwife becomes an undertaker.
Under 0baMao plan, women will give birth in rice paddies to their one child so they may continue their work with only minimal interruption.
Under 0baMao plan, women will give birth in rice paddies to their one child so they may continue their work with only minimal interruption.
It takes a lot to have a top-notch OB operation. I remember when my kids were born, you’d have a nurse hanging out most of the time, and a doctor that visits once in a while (induced labor). Then when junior is finally making the break for it, staff just materializes out of the walls, and you have about 20 people, each with a job to do (i.e., doc, antheseist, one nurse cleans the brat, another photographs it, another holds it upside down and spanks the crap out of it [for some kids, it’s the only spanking they ever get, but that’s for another post], others are with mom, are others are there for complications [which do happen]...).
It’s a shame to have to go back to midwives. My wife wouldn’t be alive today if that were the case back when one of our kids was born...not even close (barely survived as it was).
Yes, that seems to be one of socialized medicine's calling cards. The following BBC series, for example, is set about ten years after that system in the UK was extended to everyone, shortly after WWII.
I suspect their NHS still makes use of midwives, particularly in poor neighborhoods. The Muslim women, of course, are not allowed to straddle a bicycle.
If you have prostate cancer at age 70 you may well get no treatment as government studies show that "most" males with prostate cancer at this age die of something else anyway. If your 83 year old mother who lives independently in her own home falls and breaks a hip...no hip replacement she will be sent off to some care facility where she will be confined to a bed or wheelchair likely getting pressure sores and infections due to lack of adequate care and dying within months. If a young mother gives birth to an infant with low birth weight and deformities the child will likely not get treatment in a NICU and will be sent home to die. Of course members of Congress and the Executive branch will get free top notch care at special facilities not open to the public. The wealthy and Hollywood elites will get their treatment at private cash only clinics or at posh spa like facilities set up in Mexico and the Caribbean by major US clinics for treating those with money enough to escape Obamacare.
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