Posted on 05/17/2015 3:03:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out the grim facts last week on how the most progressive law in decades means disaster for New York City.
The bottom line of Stringer’s report: Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, Uncle Sam will cut more than $800 million in payments to the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp, by Fiscal Year 2019.
The president’s signature law slashes federal payments that long helped out hospitals serving lots of patients who lack insurance. The idea was that the law would boost coverage so dramatically the aid would be unnecessary.
Except that illegal immigrants don’t qualify for ObamaCare coverage — and they make up a big chunk of the city’s uninsured population.
Mind you, it was Democratic leaders trying to ease worries of Democratic members of Congress, who opted to deny that coverage. And none worried about how hard it would hit America’s cities.
This is hardly the only huge problem with the health law. What with President Obama’s decisions to ignore or waive its clear language, laws passed by Congress and signed bv Obama to amend it and Supreme Court rulings that rewrote it, ObamaCare’s been tweaked nearly 50 times, by the Galen Institute’s count.
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A gummit that robs Peter to pay Paul can count on Paul’s enthusiastic support...
Lol.
Unfortunately the Albanannas answer from son of sfachim will be to tax the rest of us so that illegal aliens can have top notch care.
Remain Calm!
We can count on the Greeks to make up the shortfall
wait till paul finds out the government thinks he is peter.
whoopsie. gotta pass it to see what’s in it, and all that
The joys of a sanctuary city!
Gotta love that diversity!
Hey, New York! How do you like your illegal immigrants now that they’re shutting down YOUR health care?
I’m sure it’s george bush’s fault. or it’s made up stuff from fox news. or it’s because someone is running for president.
or, perhaps he will just have another one of those legislative press conferences, where he promulgates new law from on high.
One thing that would help is kicking all illegals the hell out of our country.
HHC has been ripping off the Feds for fifty years. Hard to believe it will ever stop.
Yes.
There are very few business models outside of the mafia crime families where you can be paid two or more times for the same event.
Billing fraud is rampant in the healthcare profession, at least within NY state.
You see things where you get billed for the same test twice.
Had quest diagnostics try that.
I laughed at them.
Thank you Obama, Pelosi, Reid and all the other Dims that pushed this on us. How is it that an uneducated man like myself understands "unintended consequences" when all these highly educated lawyer types don't? Oh right, I have commonsense.
Just as reminder in case some forget...not ONE Republican (including RINO's) voted for this debacle.
Mark these words: Obamacare will not last another 4 years. Yeah, I know the ultimate agenda is for single payer, but I don't think America is gonna accept that either.
once upon a time was in the business of extracting blood from turnips but turnips don’t bleed ... only taxpayers bleed. The others suck as (vampires).
The feckless one is a one person evil wrecking crew. Everything is falling apart. As powerline has said: “wired to do the wrong thing every time.”
Darks, became caught up in this law. A bit over two years till relief is possible from payments ... afraid to go without insurance based on age ... Three days away from making a decision. Please pray decision will be the right one for Family. Thanks, Darks!
Had my insurance cancel out three times, then my job refused to offer insurance.
They tried to claim they didn’t have enough employees to be required to offer insurance.
Meanwhile, the insurance I had before was better than what I have now and it had been crappy coverage for the time.
Will do.
Thank You and Prayers sent your way for You and Yours ...
Welcome, and thanks.
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