This is a manifestation of another wave of ObamaCare-induced catastrophies that will begin to roll across America in the months to come. Folks I speak to in the hospital industry worry that many hundreds of small community hospitals will be closing their doors, driven out of business by ObamaCare. Cuts to Medicare reimbursements required by the ACA are primarily to blame. The big metropolitan hospitals will for the most part survive, but the small 15-30 bed hospitals that dot the small towns across the country (often contemptuous styled “band-aid stations” by the biggies) will collapse in droves. Folks in Questa, Red River or Taos, who used to receive hospital care in Taos, will find themselves being transported to Santa Fe or even Albuquerque for treatment, and friend and family will confront 150-250 round trips to visit.
The same scenario will play out in other New Mexico communities like Grants, Socorro, Tucumcari and so forth around the state and the rest of the nation.
and many people will unnecessarily die waiting to be transported
Not only will your local hospital be closed, your new improved Obamacare insurance only covers care in your county of residence. So if you live in rural America, you won’t be covered at that fancy new hospital they have to transport you to anyway, because it’s out of your county of residence. Tough luck.