Posted on 11/14/2014 6:53:56 AM PST by Second Amendment First
http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/11/12/rural-hospital-closings-federal-reimbursement-medicaid-aca/18532471/
If this news had hit the wires before the election the WAVE might have been even a bit more Awesome.
Add to this the flight of doctors associated with them, then think about having to get a written prescription each and every month for some allergy problem.
Send them home with a pill.
The journalists protected obama until they were all exposed as fraudulent liars.
They’re trying to regain their virginity.
To heck with them, it’s just fly over country, right?
Darn right. Those people are too stupid to move to the city where the government will take care of them.
Are we a Dual Hospital?
The left is always at war with rural folk, they’re too conservative. If these people were communist Chinese, they’d go into the villages and murder the grand parents in front of their children. If they were soviets, they’d starve them like peasants. The left is also at war with the middle class. That’s why they do whatever they can to squeeze out small business. That’s why wherever the left rules you find mostly poor urban folk, and a sliver of a rich ruling class.
I had lunch with a couple of hospital administrators from small community hospitals a a training program I conducted in west Texas a year or two ago. Both sported long faces, and could talk about little other than their struggles to stay afloat under ObamaCare. One claimed that the consensus in the industry was that while while most large city medical centers, the ones who contemptuous look down at their country “bandaid station” cousins, would survive under ACA, four or five hundred or more of the small fry would shut their doors within a few years.
Live in Guyman, Oklahoma or Miles City, Montana? Look forward now to having to be transported to Amarillo, Texas or Billings, Montana for specialized acute care or to visit a hospitalized family member.
If yo survive the 90 mile ambulance ride.
We predicted that health care deserts were coming.
Thanks for the info
Those who are our ruling class will either force submission or starve or burn them out.
Is funding rural hospitals a constitutional function of the federal government??
I sometimes hate being proven right.
I don’t think it is a matter of funding; many of these are funded locally.
It is a result of so many regulatory shackles that compliance is too costly.
0’care in action!
Its not just rural hospitals that are closing. I was sad when I read about the hospital I was born in was closed and torn down. This is in suburban LI.
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