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GOP obstruction of Obamacare is closing hospitals
CNN ^ | Dec 5, 2013 | Sally Kohn

Posted on 12/05/2013 8:20:22 PM PST by Innovative

The Obamacare website is open for business. But the Charlton Memorial Hospital in Folkston, Georgia, is closed.

Because Republicans in half the states have blocked the expansion of Medicaid, funds to public hospitals with large uninsured populations have been slashed.

Desperate to try to blame everything and the weather on the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried to pin the cuts in subsidies to hospitals on the dynamics of the law alone.

Purely for ideological reasons, Republicans are creating a health care crisis — in their own states.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; conjob; medicaid; medicaidexpansion; obama; obamacare; obamacarehospitals; repubsfault; sallykohn; satire
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There is no low the Dems aren't willing to sink, no lies they aren't willing to tell to try to blame the Republicans... for Obama's and their own actions.
1 posted on 12/05/2013 8:20:22 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

It’s all bush’s fault. !


2 posted on 12/05/2013 8:22:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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“Sally Kohn is a liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief education officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots think tank.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kohn


3 posted on 12/05/2013 8:22:45 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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They let slip the fact that most of Obamacare is Medicaid expansion.
4 posted on 12/05/2013 8:26:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Because Republicans in half the states have blocked the expansion of Medicaid, funds to public hospitals with large uninsured populations have been slashed.

Why doesn't Zero just give those hospitals money? From his stash. Just bypass those nasty mean ol' Republicans.

5 posted on 12/05/2013 8:27:13 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Innovative

Similar argument: “DAMN THAT WOMAN for making me rape her! She was dressing in clothes, you know, and that’s too sexy. SHE CAUSED THIS!”


6 posted on 12/05/2013 8:29:00 PM PST 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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Yeah, THAT'S a woman who loves men.

Loves them all up.

Just crazy about them.

7 posted on 12/05/2013 8:30:46 PM PST 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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So, the hospitals are closing because they don’t have enough Medicaide patients?


8 posted on 12/05/2013 8:31:01 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Innovative

California has been heralded as one of the best states for Obamacare. It’s implementation here has been somewhat better than the whole. At least that’s what we’ve been led to believe.

This afternoon I did some private health insurance shopping. While I was looking around, I spent a few minutes on the phone with a young person working the insurance phone lines, private and the Affordable Healthcare Act. One thing he’s having to deal with these days is making him disgusted. I could tell he’s about at his wits end with this nonsense.

Guess what system was down. LMAO

Yep, Obamacare was down in the bright shining example of how to do Obamacare right.

California...

Imagine how bad it had to be before, if the system being down is fixed compared to what it was like before.


9 posted on 12/05/2013 8:32:02 PM PST by DoughtyOne (May his name be striken from every tablet stone building and never be said again short of treason!)
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So, the hospitals are closing because they don’t have enough Medicaide patients?

...but prior to the non-expansion, they did?


10 posted on 12/05/2013 8:32:55 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Innovative

Ah, yes. Blocking the expansion of a federal program equates to slashing it. What a lovely old canard.


11 posted on 12/05/2013 8:39:09 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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LOL @ “free federal money”.


12 posted on 12/05/2013 8:41:10 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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The OSHIT AKA Obama Care eliminates the payments to hospitals that have enabled them to care for the uninsured who show up in their emergency rooms.

The planned expansion in Medicaid is insufficient to totally make up for this. So hospitals are in trouble either way. In addition, funding for Medicare reimbursement is being slashed nation wide by Oct. 2014.

This person’s report is misleading and doesn’t tell the whole story as usual. The government could delay the elimination of the funds like they did last year, and presto solvo. No they are too intent on trying to force everyone they can into Medicaid.

You know what happens to those families who get shoved into Medicaid? What little assets they have managed to work and pay for, including their house, becomes the property of the state - their family can not inherit their assets. How many of these people that are being tossed off their insurance and forced into Medicaid do you think know that?


13 posted on 12/05/2013 8:42:28 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Innovative

This is satire, right? Right?!


14 posted on 12/05/2013 8:44:29 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sooth2222

Because Republicans in half the states have blocked the expansion of Medicaid, funds to public hospitals with large uninsured populations have been slashed.
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This is an incorrect statement. Because the OSHIT, Democrat passed plan eliminates the current funding, there is not enough money to offset the expenses of hospitals with large uninsured populations, even if Medicaid is expanded.


15 posted on 12/05/2013 8:47:17 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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You know what happens to those families who get shoved into Medicaid? What little assets they have managed to work and pay for, including their house, becomes the property of the state - their family can not inherit their assets. How many of these people that are being tossed off their insurance and forced into Medicaid do you think know that?

Hmm, that lets them chase future generations out of that same home? I hope not. I hope as long as the family has occupants of the home they should not be able to be evicted from it (even if the gummit has a lien).

16 posted on 12/05/2013 8:47:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Lazamataz

That Napoleon Dynamite after Lasik?


17 posted on 12/05/2013 8:49:58 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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I hope as long as the family has occupants of the home they should not be able to be evicted from it (even if the gummit has a lien).

True for the spouse, offspring under 20 years old, disabled or blind offspring, certain others with hardship exemption or if income depends on it (varies a little by state).

18 posted on 12/05/2013 8:53:23 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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Even yet this looks like room enough to bother a lot of Americans. At this point, bother is good. Bother is going to be needed to get America to repudiate the evil.


19 posted on 12/05/2013 8:54:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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Nope.

Just because Repubs in those states don’t bend over and take Obamacare up the ass the closures are Obamacare’s fault.


20 posted on 12/05/2013 9:00:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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