Ping list please
It’s Working: Another Health Insurance Giant Flees More Obamacare Markets
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/09/28/obamacare-insurers-fleeing-more-markets-n2223706
We lost our hospital in Franklin Co., NC several months ago. It was a good hospital. Now all emergency calls are taken to a Raleigh hospital about 30 minutes away. I don’t know how many people that has killed so far.
I can’t believe they gave their employees such little notice.
As a side note, Mississippi has the reputation as being the poorest, most illiterate, least healthy, least educated, etc. State in the Union. You take away the 18 Delta Counties, Mississippi's becomes 20-30th in the nation. You take away Bennie Thompson's (D) Congressional District (which covers the Delta as well as the purposely-kept-poor sections of Jackson and down through to Natchez), the ranking goes higher.
Its coming to a neighborhood near you too. Obama stole $750M from Medicare to pay for his Obamacare. Doctors and rural hospitals cannot survive off the Medicare and Medicaid allowances currently in effect. Rural hospital administrators saw this coming from the beginning of Obamacare.
Take two aspirins and a shot of Jack Daniels and that broken leg will be just fine...
Thank you Obama and the democrats for destroying a once great medical industry...
Quitman County Hospital is listed as a 25 bed, critical access hospital (CAH). As such, it was built to handle rural healthcare delivery as a 96 hour facility (patients can be hospitalized for 96 hours before they must, by law, be relocated to a larger, better equipped regional hospital). CAH facilities are intended to handle EM patients until they can be stabilized and transferred to a facility which provides a more appropriate level of care. It is often difficult to convince doctors and nurses to locate to smaller rural communities, thus the pay rates necessary to attract qualified caregivers puts extraordinary financial pressure on the CAH hospitals. It is a complex healthcare delivery problem that has been going on for decades.
The net result of this closing is that the residents and users of the Quitman County CAH will either have to drive themselves or be transported by EMS to the regional facility.
I’ll bet that ninety percent of those who were discharged from that hospital in the last ten years bitched about their bill.
Just to point out: This is a county with 8000-9000 people. Consider modern hospital high-tech and regulatory expense in such small populations.
It is working exactly as those that designed it envisioned and enacted it knew it would. While I personally don’t and never did, a majority of voters that went to the polls and cast their votes in 2008 and again in 2012 said, via their votes, this is what I want. Their wish was granted.
Probably will all go to Baptist Desoto
What a shame! We don’t need Obama care, we need Free Market Care...