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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; charitable; charitablehospitals; fines; healthcare; hospitals; nonprofithospitals; obamacare; obamatheft; uninsured
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To: Nachum
This is another attack on Christianity....plain and simple. The Muslim in the White Hut is wielding his scimitar.
41 posted on 08/09/2013 3:45:27 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Mike Darancette

Correct.

But that means we will be looking for those physicians that will still take cash.


42 posted on 08/09/2013 3:50:30 AM PDT by EBH (The 'silent majority' is just as responsible for where this country is today as the screaming mob)
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To: Nachum

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?


43 posted on 08/09/2013 4:06:38 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Nachum

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.


44 posted on 08/09/2013 4:09:37 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: ballplayer

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.


45 posted on 08/09/2013 4:11:33 AM PDT by EBH (The 'silent majority' is just as responsible for where this country is today as the screaming mob)
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To: Nachum
So, Obama is DIRECTLY trying to kill the poor, the disadvantaged, and the minorities.

KEEP VOTING OBAMA, INNER-CITY DENIZENS! Idiots.

46 posted on 08/09/2013 4:20:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Nachum

What kind of fine would Mother Teresa have had to pay?


47 posted on 08/09/2013 5:12:28 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Nachum

This deserves contempt.


48 posted on 08/09/2013 5:36:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is contrary to human nature. Promoting liberalism comes from a strong hatred of self.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What Soviet Medicine Teaches US

http://mises.org/story/3650

“In order to receive minimal attention by doctors and nursing personnel, patients had to pay bribes.”


49 posted on 08/09/2013 5:40:43 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Nachum
The Affordable Healthcare Act, a/k/a, obamacare is designed to collapse the medical system and make possible the implementation of a one payer system. How long this will take I can't say, perhaps 20 years from today at the longest. This should happen around 2033 at the latest. probably much sooner. The average obama worshiper will be 28 to 50 years old at that time. Just in time to begin reaping their promised benefits that they were promised. The only problem is that the only benefits that will be available to them is suffering and death. The payer is the Government. It is what is commonly referred to as socialized Medicine. This is what politicians [who will and have exempted themselves], labor unions, and others have been clamoring for for years. They are about to get what they prayed for.

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!"

50 posted on 08/09/2013 5:48:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: ballplayer

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


51 posted on 08/09/2013 6:06:29 AM PDT by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: Nachum

Instead of blaming Obama, we should be running our congresscritters to the ground over ‘affordable care.’


52 posted on 08/09/2013 6:13:18 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Mike Darancette

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...


53 posted on 08/09/2013 6:29:24 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: Lera
"Have look and see what happens when certain churches try to get themselves exemptions instead of doing the right thing and fighting to have the entire monstrocity thrown out ." As a faithful and devout Catholic, I sadly have to agree with you. The liberal bishops in the USCCB will be the death of us.
54 posted on 08/09/2013 6:33:35 AM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Nachum

This is crazy. Now we can’t even practice the virtues of charity?


55 posted on 08/09/2013 6:34:21 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Nachum

ObamaCare is Pure Evil.


56 posted on 08/09/2013 6:35:05 AM PDT by Amagi (Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
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To: Nachum

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.


57 posted on 08/09/2013 7:23:57 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: ballplayer
..do they have to pay anything towards the premium or is it totally free to them but not the taxpayer

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.

58 posted on 08/09/2013 7:42:27 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: EBH

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


59 posted on 08/09/2013 1:48:42 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Mike Darancette

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.


60 posted on 08/10/2013 5:17:16 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, since then a State in the US, but it is Still Texas where I live.)
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