by informing each patient of their fate by final tribunal.
Government health care started in Canada in the late sixties. Initially, doctors could do both private and public patients. Then, they had to chose between the two. In 1984, it became ILLEGAL for a doctor to bill any patient privately. This is the road you are on. It is the road to hell!
Not news for Texas:
As a state that does not require a “certificate of need” to build hospitals, Texas leads the nation in the number of doctor-owned, limited service health care businesses, such as surgical or diagnostic centers, according to THA. Out of 100 such facilities that operate across the nation, about 50 are in Texas, with at least another 30 proposed or under development. Specifically, in the Houston area, there are currently 10 existing physician-owned hospitals and at least 12 that are pending, according to the Texas Hospital Association.
Read more: Physician-owned hospitals under fire | Houston Business Journal
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Memorial Health Care System (a night mare HC provider) was sued by the Tx AG for anti-trust actions against a Doc owned Hospital. The suit was settle with MHCS agreeing to 5 years probation and $1mil settlement with the state.
MHCS is the prototype for the nightmare Americans can expect from HCR. Herding the cattle (Americans) into the chutes.
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Yeah, that seems pro business and pro-growth. :sarc
Thanks for the ping on the locked thread.
So glad we passed it just to find out what’s in it.
This will hurt my company as we service those hospitals.
Can’t have any competition with big brother now, can we.
Just like the government and their services; can’t match private services, so they just ban them.
Is this part of Obama’s laser focus on”jobs, jobs, jobs”?
THE UNION BOYS OUGHT TO TAKE NOTE: Congressman Fortney “Pete” Stark (RAT-CA) done ‘em all dirty on this one.
RULE: Among leftists; your “Friend” is only your “Friend” until someone with more money shows up at the party.
All those pro-democrat union stooges just got punked by two ‘rats shilling for the American Hospital Association.
Looks like a perfect reason for doctors to stand up and say that Obamacare violates “interstate commerce” laws by prohibiting the building of a facility that can be used by anyone.
There is a physician owned cardiac hospital in Arkansas. I try and send all my patients there. If I have a heart problem that is where I am going. They are efficient and have the best nurses. The physicians I talke to are polite and I can call them on their personal phones 24/7 365 days a year and they automatically take the patient. Does not matter if they have insurance or not. Of coarse the other hospitals hate them. They even sued them and lost. I know where I will go if I ever need cardiac care. Best hospital in Arkansas.
Obamacare needs to be repealed, badly.
Its called “Accountable Care Organizations”
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/daily-reports/2010/november/30/health-care-models.aspx
And, no, your doctor doesn’t “know” enough about “how to run a hospital” like they do.
Welcome to the Fascist Fifty States of America.
If I were a physician, I would be gathering other doctors and investors to set up off-shore clinics and hospitals where American could go for elective surgery. Take a place like Belize or some beautiful island country that needs the revenue. Set up regional hubs in the US where preliminary lab tests, x-rays, etc could be performed, but do the surgery at some idland resort without all the encumbrances of government regulations. What would be better if you are having coronary by-pass, knee or hip replacements or some other procedures than to combine it with a nice tropical vacation for a few weeks in resort-like fashion. What everyone needs to do is find ‘end-runs’ around the govt loonies.
Doctors, nurses and other technical medical personnel could take short flights to this island clinic and work in a vacation-like atmosphere - away from Obama and his nightmare healthcare destruction act.