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Obamacare installs new scrutiny, fines for charitable hospitals that treat uninsured people
Daily Caller ^ | 8/8/13 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 08/08/2013 9:24:51 PM PDT by Nachum

Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.

Charity for the uninsured is one of the factors that could discourage enrollment in Obamacare, which requires all Americans to purchase heath insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS.

“It requires tax-exempt hospitals to do a community needs survey and file additional paperwork with the IRS every three years. This is to prove that the charitable hospital is still needed in their geographical area — ‘needed’ as defined by Obamacare and overseen by IRS bureaucrats,” said John Kartch, spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform.

“Failure to comply, or to prove this continuing need, could result in the loss of the hospital’s tax-exempt status. The hospital would then become a for-profit venture, paying income tax — hence the positive revenue score” for the federal government, Kartch said. “Obamacare advocates turned over every rock to find as much tax money as possible.”

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KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; charitable; charitablehospitals; fines; healthcare; hospitals; nonprofithospitals; obamacare; obamatheft; uninsured
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1 posted on 08/08/2013 9:24:51 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 08/08/2013 9:25:26 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
This is [expletive]∧10
3 posted on 08/08/2013 9:28:44 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: Nachum

Incredible. Christians have been organizing non profit hospitals throughout their history as a community corporal act of mercy to treat the sick. Now this age old practice is illegal in the United States. The Communists did the same thing in Russia. Independent organized charity was illegal since it competed with the state’s authority and primacy.


4 posted on 08/08/2013 9:31:34 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Nachum

just crap....where are the rakes and torches????


5 posted on 08/08/2013 9:32:25 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nachum

BTTT


6 posted on 08/08/2013 9:32:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nifster

Forced Zerocare WILL be the final straw...


7 posted on 08/08/2013 9:35:31 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

as the witch Pelosi told us...’we have to pass the bill to know what is in the bill...’ poison pill all around


8 posted on 08/08/2013 9:37:11 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nachum

This is why “defunding” Obamacare will prove futile. The entire abomination must be removed from the books like a cancer.


9 posted on 08/08/2013 9:38:11 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Nachum

I looked and looked for the satire keyword, but somehow didn’t find it.


10 posted on 08/08/2013 9:42:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: NonValueAdded

HIGH TREASON. GODLESS. UNCHARITABLE PROVINCIAL EVIL.

SATANIC BULLSHIT.

IMPERIAL IDIOCRACY. ASSUMPTIVE TOTALITARIAN INCOMPETANT BRAVADO...

Is your expletive-deleted thought somewhere in there?


11 posted on 08/08/2013 9:45:27 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: Nachum
Bbbbbut, Ohprah said Obama is Reeeeeeeal Smart. ($&^%^##)
12 posted on 08/08/2013 9:50:24 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Nachum

So there will be a class of US residents who are not eligible to participate in the exchanges, ineligible for Medicaid and unable to get charity?


13 posted on 08/08/2013 9:51:04 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: allendale

Words fail me.

Obama wants children to die unless his regime gets to be in charge of healing them - using a small percentage of the money extracted from taxpayers for that purpose, while giving the rest to his political buddies...

The communist goals, which were read into the Congressional Record sometime in the 60’s, talk about destroying the church and pushing policies, mores, and ideas that would undermine the family. Anybody who would show REAL love is a threat to the government that wants to be god. As you say, they are a competitor. Families that provide for their own have to be destroyed because if they are intact and strong there will be no need for the government to take over and try to be everybody’s family and/or god.

This regime is anti-Christ. In every sense of the word.


14 posted on 08/08/2013 9:51:23 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I looked and looked for the satire keyword, but somehow didn’t find it.

Oh but there are indeed people laughing. :(

15 posted on 08/08/2013 9:55:53 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What about Children’s Hospitals, Shriner’s Hospitals, City of Hope and other exclusively charity hospitals?


16 posted on 08/08/2013 9:56:10 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: Nachum

Vladimir Lenin himself said that the Socialist paradise of his dreams could never come about without absolute control of the medical system.


17 posted on 08/08/2013 9:56:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Nifster

Indeed, did you hear about the hypocrisy of Shelia Jackson Lee thanking zero for exempting congress and their aids from the program?


18 posted on 08/08/2013 9:57:29 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Nachum

And the more we find out what's in there the more we can hate it. What's next, feeding the hungry resulting in a fine from the Department of Agriculture because it discourages food stamp usage.

19 posted on 08/08/2013 9:58:17 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: butterdezillion

He’s a muslim bastard son of a whore. We should have expected no less.


20 posted on 08/08/2013 9:59:00 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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