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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Correct.
But that means we will be looking for those physicians that will still take cash.
Does anyone know what happens to the poor who cannot afford insurance now,when they are forced to get insurance through an exchange,do they have to pay anything towards the premium or is it totally free to them but not the taxpayer?
I guess this is why the Congress and their staffs will now have 75 percent of their premiums paid for by the taxpayer,would not like to have the BRAIN DRAIN that thinks This crap up.
I don’t know, but I am among the working poor who can’t afford insurance now. I’ve carried catastrophic coverage only, which is soon to be illegal under 0bamacare and all the quotes I am getting are impossible to afford.
KEEP VOTING OBAMA, INNER-CITY DENIZENS! Idiots.
What kind of fine would Mother Teresa have had to pay?
This deserves contempt.
What Soviet Medicine Teaches US
“In order to receive minimal attention by doctors and nursing personnel, patients had to pay bribes.”
They will find that the medical system will be managed by Democrat Party political hacks who have no medical knowledge or experience, or the desire to obtain same. Their philosophy will be, " Each dollar I approve for someone's medical treatment is a dollar I won't to be to put in my pocket." Hence, very few who need it will get medical treatment. In Washington DC , the Program head will read the reports of how little of the allotted money his/her field directors spent and smile from ear to ear. Since the media will refuse to report the actual suffering of the people. The people will all be crying in unison, "This is all Bush's fault!"
A family that is 133% or below of the federal poverty level for their family size qualifies for Medicaid under Obamacare. Medicaid qualification was 100% or below before Obamacare. Families on Medicaid do not have to sign up for the exchange.
See this link for the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm
Instead of blaming Obama, we should be running our congresscritters to the ground over ‘affordable care.’
Or, St Jude’s? The one that all of the *hollyweirdo’s* appear in all the ads for. Will these *advocates* be outraged - at their god 0 - about this? Maybe it will get an exemption or waiver...
This is crazy. Now we can’t even practice the virtues of charity?
ObamaCare is Pure Evil.
Whenever I read a story like this, I really wonder how much shame those who continue to insist Obamacare is the miracle of our time must be feeling. It must be hard, having to suppress one’s intelligence so as to continue to believe Obamacare is any kind of good.
The really poor will have some form of free Medicaid. Those not so poor will have to pay full premium with a tax credit for the subsidy April 15 next year. Imagine a 60 yo couple forced onto the CA exchange with income of $2,500/mo having to pay $1,249/mo for healthcare.
According to Obamacare if you cant afford insurance and I am Guessing that if you are at or below the Poverty rate,you will go on Medicaid and Not have to pay or enroll in an exchange. Your only problem will be trying to find a Doctor to take you on and depending on your age,I hope you dont live In Oregon,they are rationing Chemotherapy to seniors,too much to spend for extending life for a few months,this philosophy will soon extend to just about every other Maladys that seniors have as Obama said in one of his town halls,Go home and take a Pill
Yes, they have been providing free specialty care for children since 1922.
The O_btard hates anything good, embraces anything vile.
He lies 24/7. And his actions show he serves the father of lies.
This will not end well.
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