Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 06/18/2014 1:13:53 PM PDT by PoloSec
Patients suffering from terminal illnesses are often forced to make the heart-wrenching decision to enter hospice for end of life care. The decision to enter hospice is tragic and sad enough for patients, but now they are being told they are no longer welcome at hospice facilities because of Obamacare.
Michigan’s Hospice of Holland has announced that it is no longer accepting patients.
“The biggest issue under the Affordable Care Act is…that we’re going to see cuts in reimbursement- it’s going to be at least 12 percent. We projected out what those cuts are going to do to the organization long term and we realized that in a short period of time, we’re going to be pulling money from our savings in order to keep the house open,” the Executive Director told WXMI.
He explained that had Obamacare has forced the hospice house to shut down early, instead of in 2018 or 2019.
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There won’t be any need for their services anyway. Death Panels means the patients will stop getting ANY CARE AT ALL.........................
Not only could the death panel say die but now one may have no where to go to die.
Just roll up your sleeve. Problem solved and money saved!
Liberalism: Bringing death wherever it goes...one way or another.
Alan Grayson said that the Republicans’ healthcare policy was to let people die on the streets. What an irony this is.
Just wait until FORCED euthanasia is foisted upon us................................That’ll save some bucks, don’tcha know................
Hospice care has two elements, medical care and non-medical care. Typically, the patient pays out of pocket for the non-medical care. This gives them the option to raise those fees to cover their expenses.
I guess they don’t have enough paying customers.
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Actually I would go if they would send me to a nice sandy beach which has some palm trees, a lot of books to read and an endless supply of white wine.
Sometimes you just have to take the pill.
Ruh roh...
Sometimes you just have to take the pill.
I’m with you GramsA! I’ll be on the lounge chair next to you. I’ll share my piña colada with you on Wednesday and Friday. Strawberry Margaritas on Tuesday and Thursday. My grandkids call me Jessmaa!
I’m with you GramsA! I’ll be on the lounge chair next to you. I’ll share my piña colada with you on Wednesday and Friday. Strawberry Margaritas on Tuesday and Thursday. My grandkids call me Jessmaa!
Whoops. Looks like I got started early! Sorry for the hiccup.
I hope the D voters are proud of the unneeded suffering that their policies are foisting on others.
Yes, shut down, but he said not until 2018-2019 but for Obamacare...that’s 4+ less years of service from this Hospice specifically due to Obamacare (and given another 4 years, it’s not out of the realm of possibility they could have found other funding to stay afloat even longer).
Do they offer home hospice care? If so, will that still be available?
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