Posted on 02/23/2010 10:27:45 PM PST by bamahead
Must be those evil health insurance companies that don't pay their bills.[sarcasm]
Very ungracious, IMO.
Illegals and indigents.
NY State has the highest cost per indigent patient in the world. And every year the NY Legislature barely if at all increases reimbursement to the hospitals.
Blame goes to so many sectors of NY state society it’s hard to pick a place to start. Been like this since the Johnson administration.
JerseyHighlander you are right re: illegals. I graduated from St. V’s in 1962,and the illegal new mom’s in OB were on welfare and braging about “flying” home to Puerto Rico to have their babies christened.And that was 48 years ago.
Yes, my grandmother was a nursing administrator at another NYC hospital in the early 1960’s, and Pres. Johnson brought her on board to reformulate MediCare/MediCaid shortly before the Ted Kennedy immigration reforms.
The Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 directly caused the collapse of a welfare state designed to be a safety net just for the native born indigent population.
JH-On another note,I hope Chris Christie(not sure of spelling of last name) does right for your state. He looks like he’s trying to keep his word.
That is one way not to treat illegals, or people that don’t pay. No hospital.
Fine.
Well go back, to a Internet type network of lose doctors. Too small to hustle. It was the form, the institution of the hospital, like many others like public housing, schools, etc that allowed socialism. Get rid of the institutions, no socialism. Of course the government might just put guns to people, raid their homes, private property, business as it does already.
In some ways I think this whole debt, financial collapse, taxes eating the tax payer is all a good thing. Let’s get to were we have long been going to and get it all over with. The sooner the crash the sooner the new can grow.
What makes here think that the gov is going to pay its bills?
( doctors take no economic course at all )
Ah, the anonymity of the internet. More hit and run media.
My husband is a doc for Kaiser. Obamacare will not be a boon for anyone in the medical field or anyone needing medical care. He is as worried about his future in medicine as I am (private practice). Both of us plan an early and immediate retirement if Obamacare is passed.
Probably Charity Care is a part of it and if they are heavily into Medicaid patients (where Obama wants us all to be) their reimbursement to charges sucks. Medicaid doesn’t even cover costs.
Eli has a superbowl ring and Rivers does not. I don’t think there is anything spoiled about making smart business decisions.
...but they are still going to give him a load of sh*t over taking the first contractually agreed payment of $500,000.
Whatever you do, don’t blame the laws that order the hospital to treat people who cannot pay, don’t have insurance and are in this country illegally.
>>My husband is a doc for Kaiser. Obamacare will not be a boon for anyone in the medical field or anyone needing medical care. He is as worried about his future in medicine as I am (private practice). Both of us plan an early and immediate retirement if Obamacare is passed.
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Just as I thought. My Canadian GF said “why did I come here, escaping socialism when the very same healthcare system will be implemented in America?”. The MD’s in her department by rumor, plan to open med ctrs in the Philippines and Mexico if it passes because it truly is not a feasible system to work under.
Well at least we’re armed.
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