Posted on 05/01/2015 7:39:33 AM PDT by PROCON
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — There are more than 4,700 hospitals in the U.S, spread about evenly between urban and rural areas. But that number has been dwindling.
More than 100 hospitals have closed since 2010, and the pace has quickened in the past couple of years. Hospitals are closing at about the same rate in urban and rural areas, but health care analysts say the effect often is more pronounced in small towns, where residents typically must travel farther to get to the next nearest hospital.
Some answers to common questions about hospital closings:
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Is Captain Obvious Awake?
“Q&A: Why have rural hospitals been closing? “
Because we have a retard in the WH?
Lesson Learned: Making your cash flow dependent upon the US Congress is a really crappy business model.
You’re too kind, he’s much more than that.
OBAMACARE and the lack of ability of people to use it due to high deductibles and copays. Also have hard it is for doctors to get money from the insurance companies and what they pay.
Take a look around at other countries. Same trend occurring in Germany at present. They expect roughly 35-percent of German hospitals to close by 2020.
Wow, it’s almost like the gubmint is trying to make rural folk move to the urban, big city areas. Nahhh.
Correct with a slight modification.
Here’s the inside scoop...business-wise...a small country hospital can only provide A, B, and C. If you wanted some help with pneumonia or a minor car accident...you go to the county hospital.
But go and say that a accident occurred on highway 72 and really serious injuries occurred...well, it’s got to be a chopper call and they will haul these folks to the ‘big’ hospital 40 miles away, where they have a burn unit and a serious injury unit. County general? Skipped, for obvious reasons.
I noticed when my dad came down with cancer and there was the option of the local cancer unit with limited statistics and success....he opted for the bigger cancer unit fifty miles away. Most of the locals all do the same thing. Forty years ago...they would have driven 100 miles to Nashville and used their big cancer center.
So, business wise, we are getting to a point where local ISN’T enough or giving us the prime support we think we deserve. If you run a regional hospital and it’s not pulling X amount of profit....you will eventually close the front door. This is capitalism at work, NOT the government. Now, in Washington DC....in one particular neighborhood...the city council funded their neighborhood hospital for a decade, while it carried continual losses...rather than force everyone in the city (6x6 miles) to go to one city-supported unit.
True, except according to the article the problem with these hospitals is over-reliance on Medicare and Medicaid, which far predates Obama.
BO made Medicare insolvent faster by gutting it to finance ObaMaoCare and, as one result, has driven more people into Medicaid.
Obamacare
Actually going according to the progressives’ insidious plans. They’re quite open about it. Force people from rural into urban areas where they can be more easily manipulated/controlled. Read Agenda 21 yet? (UN statement or Beck’s book, doesn’t matter - they’re both largely works of non-fiction anyway).
Because obama has calmed the seas, strengthened the economy, healed the racial divide, and so many other wonderful things that people are now happy and no longer getting sick or injured, not to mention the healthy effects of Michelle O’s healthy school lunch program.
This announcement comes to you from Valeri Jared through the DNC...Hail to the most benevolent and high(pun) King Obamalamadingdong!
We don’t get sick?...
Seriously what hospital/doctor in a small market can even meet costs now-a-days?
ObamalamadingdongCare
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