[scrabblehack]

My mom was in and out of the hospital several times in her last 2 months.

Possibly the goal is to get the hospital to tell the patient, “we can’t do anything more for you,” and send him/her home or to hospice sooner.

Maybe wealthier patients won’t be sent home as quickly...not sure.

[freeangel]

Here come the executive “waivers”....

[originalbuckeye]

‘lower costs and improve care’ Riiiigggghhhhtttt (in a Dr Evil voice)

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Somehow, the media will turn this into a bunch of sob stories about how those rich hospitals are just so greedy that they won’t treat patients for the government-mandated price. If someone has complications, well keep them for free for an extra couple weeks until you are 100% certain they are OK. And when the hospital goes bankrupt? Oh well. Time to build a government-owned hospital in its place, or have the government take it over and start subsidizing it. Then it will be OK to kill people through negligence because the media won’t be doing stories about it anymore.

[Gay State Conservative]

Goal #1...put all private insurance companies and coverage plans (except,of course,the solid gold ones that currently apply to government paycheck recipients),Goal #2...put all Catholic hospitals out of business.

[snarkytart]

Nobody outside this forum cares. Everyone apparently wants the socialist back in the office to finish giving them “Free” stuff. Enjoy!

[Venturer]

Medicare push’s the hospitals to dump these people back in the streets as soon as possible so they can save money.

Now they want to punish the hospital for doing what they told them to do.

They toss them in the street too soon and they come back, that’s what is happening.

The smart thing to do would be to care for them until they are ready for discharge.
Never expect Government to do the smart thing.