REPORT: 60 Hospitals Cancelled Due to New Health Law... (see #4 for article)

CNSNews.com ^ | 4/12/10 | Fred Lucas

[kcvl]

Per Drudge...server too busy to get article

[RandallFlagg]

How soon will it be for Obama to make another speech. Blaming greedy doctors and staff.

And Bush, of course.

[Obadiah]

These hospitals are advertised as less bureaucratic and more focused on doctor-patient decision making. However, larger corporate hospitals say doctor-owned facilities discriminate in favor of high-income patients and refer business to themselves.

All this simply means is that these hospitals don't take Medicare and Medicaid. Hence the reference to way less bureacracy and the charge that they only cater to the wealthy. When the government, via Medicare and Medicaid, pay healthcare providers $0.30 on the dollar is there any wonder why doctors would limit government services? The government wants healthcare providers to work for next to nothing, while the Medicare and Medicaid programs STILL go broke! But not to fear! ObamaCare will fix this all right up!

[GreyFriar]

Thanks for posting the text of the headline. More cuts and worse care to come under obimocarp

[yield 2 the right]

Still troublesome to get onto that site.

[TYVets]

I was talking to a doctor about rationed healthcare in January.

The doctor said "They did away with The Death Panels in England, there are no death panels there today."

I failed to ask him when did they start and when did they end ?

[RandallFlagg]

One of them (I think) is Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado.

Our side ought to make a commercial about this.

[St. Louis Conservative]

If the most offensive portions of ObamaCare are not repealed soon, look for some enterprizing individuals to open private hospitals and/or clinics that cater to the wealthy and accept only cash or private insurance.

[NC28203]

Some of the pros and cons of Physician Owned Hospitals:

Critics say that when doctors steer patients to a hospital they own, it gives them an incentive to put profits above the patient's health by ordering more tests or procedures than are necessary. They argue that physician-owned hospitals siphon off the most lucrative, easy-to-treat patients, leaving more complex and costly cases, as well as the poor and uninsured, to community hospitals. That can prompt community hospitals to curtail vital but expensive services, such as comprehensive emergency room care, which specialty hospitals generally do not provide.

Supporters say the hospitals offer high-quality care, tend to have more nurses, pay taxes (unlike nonprofit institutions), and, most important, offer a choice. Doctors care more about patients' welfare than do the large chains that operate some hospitals, say supporters, who suspect that what community hospitals really object to is having to fight for business.

[Vendome]

Here as an article that explains it.

the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act stipulates that existing physician-owned hospitals are prohibited from expanding beds, procedure rooms and operating rooms from the date the bill was enacted. Those same provisions also apply to hospitals that are now under construction and that receive Medicare agreements by Dec. 31, according to Eric Zimmerman, a lawyer who is a partner with McDermott Will & Emery in Washington....

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20100412/MODERNPHYSICIAN/304129996

[mware]

I heard that all future doctor owned hospitals are going to be stopped. I suspect that is the source of most of these hospitals being closed down

[TheThirdRuffian]

“open private hospitals and/or clinics that cater to the wealthy and accept only cash or private insurance”

You would think; I am sure these would be made illegal in short order.

(I believe they are illegal in England.)

[Obadiah]

So... let's see, as the supply choices and options become more limited might there be less available health care? Might there be rationing? Might there be death panels? Might the government step in again and start to regulate doctors more, in the form of limiting license renewals unless they comply with where they practice, who they accept as patients???

Ain't socialism grand?

[Obadiah]

Yeah, the government hates competition.

[Ulysse]

If this trick goes on you will soon have a lack of doctors and a cheap medicine (10 or 15mn by patient in many european countries!)

[TChris]

Boy, some people just HATE a company that has the power to make its own choices, according to its own rules.

Hey, I "cherry pick" my customers all the time. Does that make me evil?

Such criticisms only reveal the entitlement mentality of the ones making them.

Free Clue: Health care is not a right. It's a for-pay service.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Our side ought to make a commercial about this.”

Well the problem is that nobody can predict how such a thing will be spun. Apparently, there is an already existing “launch pad” to characterize these types of hospitals as run by greedy doctors who will not take indigent patients or medicaid patients (Me, I have no idea, I regard them as a business that has to obey laws and if it prices itself out of the market, then it suffers accordingly)

[Jack Hydrazine]

[TruthHound]

Medical School Futures ... buy short!

[toast]

Anybody have a list of renowned doctor owned hospitals?
I want to see if the Mayo Clinic would be affected.

[Michael Barnes]

Oh, I see...So, in order to provide MORE service, I must shut down planned capacity. I get it.

Guess Drudge took this to heart. He was getting ready to service up more readers, so he shut down more servers.

Makes perfect sense.