The story’s impact has been lost in the silly snark of the posters above.
Kentucky has a Democrat governor and a Democrat House, so ObamaCare was embraced by the state. McConnell has nothing to do with this on the state level.
As a physician, I’m seeing lots of people coming out of the woodwork who were not obtaining care because of lack of insurance. Now they have it, and they are getting healthcare.
That’s good.
What’s not so good is that the reimbursements are Medicaid level. Unless you run a medical factory, the payments are not high enough to sustain the delivery of decent quality health care.
That’s bad.
We’re losing most of the rural hospitals, and the city hospitals are having to shave pennies everywhere just to stay solvent. Many of them aren’t doing it very well.
Kentucky’s answer is to merge hospitals so the chains will be too large to fail. Will it work? Time will tell...
Do the administrators deserve Million dollar salaries per year?
You forgot to add the part where the article pointed out “THE DEDUCTIBLES” were so high that a lot of people could/didn’t pay the balance owed. The article did not mention all of the new coding and the HUGE costs of just trying to bill properly now....it is a true and intentional cluster___K....all done intentionally ... the cost of Romney care in Massachusetts is sucking up more and more of the states money every cycle....now here in Maine our Governor Lepage did not allow for exspansion of medi-caid ...he read the thing and caught hell for it but he has save our state 10’s of millions....This is why Rush Limbaugh always said he hoped Bama/sotoreo fails..
“Will it work? Time will tell...”
I predict it will fail in the long haul. Show me countries where socialized medicine has been practised for decades without a general decline in the quality of services (drugs, procedures, fast admission) for all but the poorest under the previous medical system. Yes, the poorest that had nothing benefited a little, but everybody else suffered. Socialism pulls everything down to the lowest common denominator. Even affluent European countries are scaling back their social services, because socialism is ultimately unsustainable.
As socialism degrades our whole economy, medical services become even worse and even more unaffordable. Perhaps one day our medical system will rival those of Cuba or Venezuela.