Posted on 04/12/2010 2:23:07 PM PDT by kcvl
They are just legislating what some giant Health Care systems have been doing all along. One of the worst offenders threatened insurance (private) that they would be charge higher rates if they had contracts with POHs.
Then refers to Medicare/Medicaid patients as “those” people.
>>>Is that a quote from Wikipedia?
No it is a quote from a story related to extending a moratorium on physician owned hospital certification that was initially passed by a Republican controled congress and signed into law by a Republican president back in 2003.
around here everyone opts for the physician-owned option as our public hospital sucks....
How will the affect the “Medical Mile” being built in Grand Rapids, Michigan?
Well, this should not surprise anyone.
The government hates competition.
I’m wondering
what a small community is to do if a physician-owned hospital is their only facility and they need to expand to meet patient needs? Does this include physician-owned abortion clinics?
The Doctor owned hospitals should sell the land based hospitals, buy up Carnival and Norwegian cruise ships and have off shore hospitals that are not under Obama jurisdiction. Get surgery and 10 days relaxation at sea. No Government monies allowed. Cash, Gold, or silver only.
Having experienced both forms of healthcare I can assure all readers that the U.S. system is far superior until something like cancer arises. I am now back in Canada and I re-injured an arm I had surgery on in the U.S. The hospital I went to COULD NOT get proper X-rays of the arm to see what was wrong because of a glare from the titanium so they asked me to have the x-rays taken at a walk-in clinic in Pocatello ID sent up along with the surgeon’s notes from the original operation in Blackfoot ID. I need a new shoulder because I was walking along a sidewalk which was in extremely poor condition and literally flew over the handlebars of my walker (I have seven compressed discs in my back) I landed first on the bad arm/shoulder, then on my nose which I broke, put my teeth through my lip, and had sidewalk rash from my eyes right down to under my chin before I became unconscious. I was on a backboard for over 5 hours and also was in a cervial collar for 2 hours. Because I was groggy from being unconscious the ER doctor figured I was a drug addict and that is what she focused on, nothing more except removing the stones etc from my face. She actually put down on the report that I was taking 600 mg of morphine! I was shocked when I read that considering I am 4ft 9 in short and don’t weigh 90 lbs. I would be unable to function with that amount of morphine in me. She didn’t look at my shoulder at all and yet I knew by the next morning that I had damaged it when I was trying to do my exercises. I wasn’t taken seriously by my family doctor who got me addicted to morphine instead. It wasn’t until January that I was finally informed that I had so badly damaged the shoulder that I needed a new shoulder BUT I could wait as long as three years for it! Also the hospitals up here in B.C. complain about shortfalls in their budgets but all the patient rooms are wired for video and sound and all patient phone calls are recorded! Want to try sociaized medicine Canadian style now?
And oh yes, when I originally arrived back in Canada I had over $2208 U.S. worth of insulin in flexpens (flexpens aren’t available in Canada) with me. I was admitted to the hospital and all medications I had with me were recorded but when I was discharged four days later the doctors from the ER had sudden cases of amnesia and no insulin was ever returned to me. In Feb a nurse phoned to tell me one of the two types of my insulin was in the fridge in the ER but the other was no where to be found. What a nice way to balance a budget! An investigation has been launched over the insulin but I doubt I will ever get an apology over the treatment I received during that original trip to the hospital considering I ended up at the ER the night after I was released in severe hypoglycemic shock after giving myself half of the ordered doseage of insulin which the doctor had ordered me to give myself. If I had given myself the doseage he had ordered I would have been a corpse going by ambulance to the morgue. That’s the horror of socialized medicine for a short time period, I won’t bore you with my other trips to the hospital, your hair would turn white.
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That is not a bad idea
Don’t the Dutch have a floating abortion ship that goes around servicing countries where abortion is illegal?
If you are one of the few that actually gets diagnosed and treated in time, I'd surmise.
...or the Careless Unhealthy Kill the Economy Bill
You can get away with that, when you have the wife of a "connected" politician on the payroll to make sure regulators don't bother you about it.
Anyone suing under equal protections over this?
I was denied treatment, but was advised to prejure myself by an ID Health & Welfare employee which would have led to fines, jail time and automatic deportation from the U.S. for a 10 year period. As it is my husband has been in the hospital for 3 weeks now in ID and I have been unable to find a way to be at his side. A federal employee with DHHS said I had been eligible for the program which detected the cancer (we were receiving bills for that testing amounting to thousands of dollars) and my privacy rights had been violated but the Feds would NOT investigate because I was not eligible for medicaid! What one has to do with privacy violations I would like to know, but I had NOT told her I was from Canada and yet her final words to me were “Go back to Canada” and yet I was in the midst of applying for my green card. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and ended up going back to Canada where I had a masectomy Sept 29th. My husband and I are proud people and we don’t like asking for help, I have been hospitalized in the past and we are slowly paying off those bills but cancer is beyond our means. I was a legal immigrant but was treated worse than an illegal. Googling “financial assistance for breast cancer treatment in ID” simply says medicaid for which I had been denied.
Thanks for the ping. Communists aren’t satisfied with a partial take-over.
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