Nephew is a nursing home administrator in Florida. Payments for services are being cut and penalties instated by the government for “unnecessary” services. Bottom line is that the Affordable Care Act is a “hurry up and die” act. Few, if any, are benefitting from the act while most providers and patients are facing higher costs and a reduction in medical services. This “Tax Act” needs to be repealed and a simplified, more cost effective act put in its’ place. As a side note, no piece of legislation with such far reaching effects should be allowed to pass with a simple majority.
Payments for services are being cut and penalties instated by the government for “unnecessary” services.
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While many are quick to blame insurance companies, the real culprit is the Obamacare provision under which exchange bureaucrats must exclude insurers who offer policies deemed to allow “excessive or unjustified” health care spending by their policyholders. Prescription drugs are often a costly part of these plans.
Obamacare Plans Limit Access to Life-Saving Prescriptions
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/27/obamacare-plans-limit-access-to-life-saving-prescriptions/
Well, Boomer One, that ‘hurry up and die’ piece is part of the plan to rescue Social Security and Medicare, too. Death relieves the stress on both of those, more quickly than prolonging the lives of those pesky old folks...