Obamacare Inspires Sale Of Catholic Hospitals

BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 10-8-10

[Tribune7]

An attempt is being made to sell three financially solvent Catholic hospitals in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the motive is Obamacare, according to their owner.

On the block are Mercy Hospital in Scranton, Mercy Tyler Hospital in Tunkhannock and Mercy Special Care Hospital in Nanticoke, which are owned by Mercy Health Partners of Scranton.

Mercy Health CEO Kevin Cook told WNEP-TV that while the hospitals were "actually . . doing well" they expect that over the next five years "a different level of investment" would be needed that what they could do on their own.

[Eva]

Yeah, assisted suicide is about saving money. The idiots on the left try to paint it as compassionate, like that woman on the BBC show who said that she would gladly smother her own handicapped baby. It’s really about saving those who are left behind from the burden of caring for the old or infirm.

[John O]

Catholic liberals

With the assumption that all Catholics must be Christian in order to be Catholic, There is no such thing as a Catholic Liberal.

They are either Catholic, or they are liberal. The two belief systems are mutaullly exclusive.

The church should formally excommunicate any one who shows up to mass with a democrat bumper sticker on their car as those people are publicly proclaiming that they are anti-Christ

[Coleus]

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[Charles Martel]

The church should formally excommunicate any one who shows up to mass with a democrat bumper sticker on their car as those people are publicly proclaiming that they are anti-Christ

If only. Naturally, the Church will never do so, what with its "Hate the sin, not the sinner" point of view. I'd be happy with a few high-profile excommunications of certain so-called "clergy" who use their positions to advance global liberalism and rarely are in alignment with the Church's positions on *anything*. Pfleger (sp?) would be a good one to start with.

The current passive approach ("self-excommunication") just ain't cutting it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[GailA]

Most private hospital will suffer badly. Memphis has only 1 public hospital...don’t visit the regular ER unless you have all day, and want your BP to go out the roof by all the “FREE” health care the illegals are getting...they treat it as a doctor’s office.

[GailA]

USE THE AMMO the enemy gives you! Print the first article out for those seniors that are not online, email the list, print it, hand it out. Tell folks to go read for themselves. I do, then I tell them that my commie rep Steve Cohen gifted them with the $569 Billion tax hike, and the $8.15 Trillion Medicare gut.

USE THE AMMO THE LEFT GIVES YOU!

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/28/health-laws-heavy-impact/

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http://www.startribune.com/business/103642009.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr

Social Security: No 2011 increase expected (COLA)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/05/news/economy/Social_Security_cost_of_living_adjustment/index.htm

NO COLA
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Donald-Marron/2010/0920/Social-Security-no-COLA-in-2011

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http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/09/28/harvard_pilgrim_

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-advantage_22bus.ART.State.Edition1.3c912a9.html

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ObamaCare has just made me Sicker!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bamcare_has_just_made_me_icker_c1dBRZ6M3yuH27rAVnLsvN

In the notice, EmblemHealth told Gowland, who is healthy, “The proposed rate increase includes two components: a basic increase on your type plan and an increase due to the cost of enhanced benefits required by the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”

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http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517004

Principal To Cut Jobs, End Med Insurance Business
http://www.kcci.com/money/25224059/detail.html

Obama: We knew health costs would go up
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/118079-obama-we-knew-health-costs-would-go-up

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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/01/The-New-Federal-Wedding-Tax-How-Obamacare-Would-Dramatically-Penalize-Marriage

1099: The Trojan Horse within Obamacare
http://palmettoinsider.com/2010/09/21/1099-the-trojan-horse-within-obamacare/

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38496

Senate Expands IRS Form 1099 Reporting Requirement to Include All Rental Property Owner
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75911

Paperwork nightmare: New 1099 mandate must be repealed
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_61e61666-bbc1-11df-b2c3-001cc4c002e0.html

Health care law’s massive, hidden tax change( 1099*s)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_care_tax_change/index.htm

Lost in Taxation, The IRS’s vast new ObamaCare powers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365223062942574.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

[cherry]

nothing worse than fallen away Catholics or Catholics who don’t believe in their own relgion...

[Sun]

What a shame. I wish they waited until after the elections. Obamacare might be defunded/repealed.

[SuziQ]

The hospitals wouldn’t have any problem hiring people who are not Catholic, and wouldn’t even have a problem hiring someone who is homosexual; the EEOC already controls that as part of hiring regulations. My thought is that they are looking at Obamacare and seeing being forced to do sterilizations and abortions, at the threat of losing medical standing, or any Federal funding, at all.

[dblshot]

No matter what your morals are you can't continue to provide charity services unless the congregation puts plenty of donations in the poor box. With medicare/medicadepayments being reduced, hospitals that are already running in the red have to do something. The slack isn't about to be picked up by the Church. Who suffers the most? The poor of course. Michelle was known to encourage drive by ambulance runs at Chicago University Hospital (or whatever it was) so why not make it a national policy. You better have plenty of Hope that you make it to an open hospital if you live in Scranton.