Posted on 04/12/2010 3:19:40 AM PDT by Cindy
"Health Law Bans New Doctor-Owned Hospitals, Blocks Expansion of Existing Ones"
SNIPPET: "The rules fall under Title VI, Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The provision is titled “Physician Ownership and Other Transparency – Limitations on Medicare Exceptions to the Prohibition on Certain Physician Referral for Hospitals.”
More than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will be canceled, said Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America (PHA).
“That’s a lot of access to communities that will be denied,” Sandvig told CNSNews.com. “The existing hospitals are greatly affected. They can’t grow. They can’t add beds. They can’t add rooms. Basically, it stifles their ability to change and meet market needs. This is really an unfortunate thing as well, because we are talking about some of the best hospitals in the country.”
The organization says physician-owned hospitals have higher patient satisfaction, greater control over medical decisions for patients and doctor, better quality care and lower costs. Further, physician-owned hospitals have an average 4-1 patient-to-nurse ratio, compared to the national average of 8-1 for general hospitals.
Further, these 260 doctor-owned hospitals in 38 states provide 55,000 jobs, $2.4 billion in payroll and pay $509 million in federal taxes, according to the PHA."
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"Further, these 260 doctor-owned hospitals in 38 states provide 55,000 jobs, $2.4 billion in payroll and pay $509 million in federal taxes, according to the PHA."
Obama’s Fault
but, but, but, the AHA support this. That’s good. Right?
God forbid hospitals should be run by physicians who actually know something about health care. Much better that they be run by lawyers and politicians.
Politicians don’t like doctors, in part because they have been held at a higher level of respect in society than politicians are. There has always been an element of resentment by democrat politicians that has driven government takeover of health care.
Sounds like another lawsuit brewing to me.
I have come to conclude that on the day this so-called healthcare bill was signed, Obama gave us:
Fewer doctors
Fewer hospital beds
Much longer wait times (fewer providers)
Less medical research on devices and pharmeceuticals
Higher insurance costs
Much higher national debt
Other than that, it’s a great plan.
/s
In the pecking order politicians come in under dirt mites in terms of respect. There isn't the remotest comparison.
Because of Hussein the First hospitals must be
run by LAWYERS.
Great, huh?
They already drove up the cost of medicine and ruined
America.
“Politicians don’t like doctors, in part because they have been held at a higher level of respect in society than politicians are.”
Follow the money. Hospitals account for twice the share of the health care pie as doctors. All other things equal, this makes politicians twice as likely/willing to listen to the hospital point of view when it conflicts with that of physicians. This is yet another political pay-off to an interest group to purchase support (or at least silence) as Uncle Sam acquired a chokehold over the health sector. Doctors got paid off with the “doc fix”, hospitals got paid off by the specialty hospital fix and other (temporary) concessions the leave them off the chopping block for the immediate future. Needless to say, this policy is infinitely “flexible” depending on how many political contributions docs can come up with to grease the wheels in hope of change.
The medical insurance companies backed the bill.
Major civil rights lawsuits. Totally un-Constitutional.
On a similar note, many people do not know that an aircraft manufacturer is not allowed to own an airline. This is due to the 1934 Railway Act; the pilots union didn't want Boeing to be able to dominate the airline business with their horizontally integrated business known as United Aircraft (UATC)...and the airline that it had which was called United Airlines. Which still operates under that name, but has no Boeing ownership...
This is more of the same. The underachievers and thugs want to extort more money from those who can and do achieve by preventing them from owning the rights to their productivity.
Communist thuggery at its very worst.
save for later
The noose around the neck of our liberties tightens.
Imagine a mobile medical van with a doctor/staff that could handle all the little stuff, even minor surgeries. A doctor who doesn't need his patients to always go to a hospital, but a doctor who makes his rounds to their private homes.
I don't really know how it would actually really work, but if they are going to stifle hospital expansion what are the options? And honestly, if that's how this all goes down the last place on earth I want to go is to the hospital. They become dying centers instead of life saving centers.
So I am wondering what might a 21st Century “House Call Dr.” look like? What kind of patients would use him/her? How could technology facilitate the doctor patient relationship? What is the doctor hospital relationship look like?
This was also my first thought on reading the article. The STATES "do" have the authority to make such a law, but the feds do not.
But that crap is a-priori restraint, and it's a red herring anyway - they just want control of the hospitals, as others here have said.
dont forget...its free
Once I saw the AMA was supporting ObamaCare I expected this to be deleted. Guess not.
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