Posted on 01/06/2017 7:03:12 AM PST by Jim Noble
Doctor bills and payments to doctors are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Hospitals exist because a river of cash from the Federal government flows through the doors and windows every day. Most hospitals don't have 60 days cash on hand. Many don't have 15.
The scares about what happens after repeal are mostly about hospital/"health system" cash flow.
That cash flow issue explains why hospitals were putting the heat on GOP Governors to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. They opted to trade payments in the short term for the long term health of the system.
Courting disaster? That’s like saying that a tsunami cleanup crew is courting disaster. Of course, someone could trip, and fall in the slime, but it must be done.
It was, for its time, a wonderful thing. But it also was part of a "two-tier" system, which the People, acting through their representatives and their lawyers, have decisively rejected.
I believe county hospitals/charity hospitals are the only alternative to nationalization. The reason the GOP and Conservatism Inc. don't have a solution to infinite demand, highest quality, and low cost is because there isn't one.
However, sending charity patients back to charity hospitals would require a revolution in consciousness of which there is no sign whatsoever.
I predict Trump (we are going to take care of everybody) will nationalize within a few years.
It is heart warming to see the NYT so concerned about the health of the GOP.
Only those that don’t work loved Obamacare.
Great plans at no cost with no deductibles.
Probably all of the same folks on EBT, OBAMAPHONES, WELFARE are the ones challenging Republicans to replace it with the same things.
Problem was the workers of America got financially destroyed paying for it by paying greatly inflated premiums. Also the ones paying were the ONLY ones stuck with paying $6000 deductibles.
Welfare queens should get bandaids and pills. Broken bone care.
Pretty much no care for treatments unless they go to work and buy a plan.
Like communism, you kill it all having 30% supporting the other 70% and 30 million illegals and anchor babies.
Nor do any of the of the outraged parsites, nor the MSM...
Obama care has never been, nor can ever be insurance!
Look up the definition of "insurance," geniuses...
I had a great uncle who was briefly the Chaplain at Kings County Hospital.
Whenever the Ny Slimes is against any Republican or what they might do, that makes it easy for me to support whomever or whatever the Slimes tries to trash.
OK, let's work on this. Broken hip: Nail put in by a resident, permanent limp, or total hip put in by a Board-certified Orthopedic surgeon, perfect restoration of function? $1500 or $60 000.
"Hello? Mr. CA Guy? Queenie's lawyer is on the phone..."
MSM will never mention Democrats actually raided Medicare trust funds to pay for Obamacare.
Or how it was passed without a single Republican vote.
Amen!
A blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while....
We already have a Disaster, it’s called Obamacare.
Hard to do much worse.
“How about doing it the old fashioned way...THE FREE MARKET.”
Yep. The healthcare industry suffers from chronic government interference.
... over a trillion$, creating also a crisis for Social Security, and shortening its financial health by at least 15 years.
Another fake brick in Obamas's potempkin legacy wall...
Total and pure ignorance BS!
Insurance was created by the "free market" of its time.
Companies have to keep premiums below 9.5% of a workers pay or they can get dinged with big penalties. The only place to tweak costs is with deductibles and co-pays.
Not if D.C. cuts off the funding that paid for the Medicaid expansion. If Trump and Congress do that then the states won't have a choice but to dump people from Medicaid.
Coming up with the money to fund one, for one thing. Having an account available is another. Those are managed by businesses and not the government.
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