Sigh...
Stupid is as stupid does.
They’ll still build the hospitals. They’ll just build them in places like Costa Rica, Jamaica, the Turk and Curacao islands, etc.
Those countries will be delighted to make sure they have safe locations, tax breaks, etc., because of all the medical tourists they will bring with them.
And, medical tourism will stop being something for the very rich. Plane flights to the Islands and Latin America are cheap enough. A middle class worker in his forties will certainly be better off getting his procedures done in these new hospitals for cold cash (even if he has to sell his boat), than waiting in line for three months for a Obama approved clinic.
This “law” is not going to do anything it is designed to do. It is, however, going to make things worse at every level.
Article yesterday in an English Costa Rica news site:
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/april/05/costarica10040502.htm
That will happen.
Also, a simple “consulting” fee would dodge the problem nicely.
There will be consequences. Somehow Liberals believe that there are no economic laws. They disregard Natural Law to the harm of all those around them.
If only the people would see that Liberalism is the economic equivalent of jumping off the roof.