It Was My Greatest Accomplishment!
Posted on 07/16/2009 9:42:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Given that Medicare is already on track to bankrupt the United States, you'd think the government would be looking to reduce its health care responsibilities, not increase them. However, the government being the government, is looking to take over the rest of our health care system in a move that would spike costs, ruin the quality of care, and involve the government even more deeply in the daily lives of Americans.
However, let's take a look at how the state government in Massachusetts, where they have Romneycare -- which incidentally, is looking less and less appealing -- to see how things are going:
A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law is forcing the hospital to cover too much of the expense of caring for the poor.
The hospital, Boston Medical Center, faces a $38 million deficit for the fiscal year ending in September, its first loss in five years. The suit says the hospital will lose more than $100 million next year because the state has lowered Medicaid reimbursement rates and stopped paying Boston Medical "reasonable costs" for treating other poor patients.
...According to the suit, Massachusetts is now reimbursing Boston Medical only 64 cents for every dollar it spends treating the poor. About 10 percent of the hospital's patients are uninsured -- down from about 20 percent before the law's passage in 2006. But many more are on Medicaid or Commonwealth Care, the state-subsidized insurance program for low-income residents.
One of the state's reimbursement rates to Boston Medical, dropped from $12,476 in 2008 to $9,323 by 2009, the suit says.
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I was so f*cking wrong about Romney. I was a sorry sack of horsesh*t for voting for him. But then again, they were all sorry sacks of horsesh*t.
Frankly, this is the party which has given some some awful lousy choices. McCain was no better. Palin might have some promise, but she’s not a four-star candidate.
You are just a guy that voted for him like lots of other people, including many freepers but wait until you see his true believers in action here (they are currently laying low), then you will want to amputate your voting hand.
With your vocabulary you will fit right in with FR!
See, you have already been welcomed by one of them.
Ambassador to Haiti is OK
Once upon a time there was a President named “Slick Willie”. I pray to God we never see “Slick Willard”.
I don’t think Haiti would like a guy with the racial history of Mitt Romney.
As of now we're sending all $ to Sarah.
Bingo!
What can be learned is that there are a few litmus tests as to who is a conservative and who isn’t. Some of the issues may seem silly and trivial.....
For example, politicians with R’s next to their name who give global warning lip service and support smoking bans.
It says one of two things about them:
1. They believe the junk science
2. They don’t believe the junk science but think it is for the greater good so they will go along with it anyway (which makes them more dangerous than category 1). Than there is...
3. Assclowns who think they are above party or ideology and their genius will solve everything...
(See Bloomberg, Emperor or Romney, Myth)
Instead you are now seeing offensive Obama....:)
We might get it without him
I don’t care how much it costs, I want it.
-your friends on the American left
In our area we have a new hospital opening. It has no emergency room. A doctor has to admit you.
I can see this becoming very popular within the hospital industry. You’ll have to have a private physician in order to get admitted to the hospital. Those without private doctors — illegals, poor, uninsured — will have to go to the government run hospitals with emergency rooms. Guess which hospitals will eventually have the best doctors and provide the best care.
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