Posted on 12/08/2016 8:40:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The nation’s hospital industry warned President-elect Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Tuesday that repealing the Affordable Care Act could cost hospitals $165 billion by the middle of the next decade and trigger “an unprecedented public health crisis.”
The two main trade groups for U.S. hospitals dispatched a letter to the incoming president and Capitol Hill’s top four leaders, saying that the government should help hospitals avoid massive financial losses if the law is rescinded in a way that causes a surge of uninsured patients.
The letter, along with a consultant’s study estimating the financial impact of undoing the Affordable Care Act, makes hospitals the first sector of the health-care industry to speak out publicly to try to protect itself from a sharp reversal in health policy that Trump is promising and congressional Republicans have long favored.
When it was enacted in 2010, the health-care law was a product of a delicate balancing act among various parts of the health-care industry. Each essentially agreed to sacrifices in exchange for the prospect of millions of Americans gaining insurance to help cover their medical expenses.
Since Trump’s election last month, most health-industry sectors have quietly been trying to glean — and influence — the thinking within Congress’s GOP majority and the president-elect’s transition team.
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WaPo.
The very definition of fake news.
Try again, losers.
i.e. “too big to repeal”
Wanna bet?
Geez. Obamacare interfered with free markets much more than I would have guessed. Got to end it now before the damage is worse.
How much will you save when illegals go bye-bye?
Some hospitals may lose, but Americans definitely win.
Personal healthcare and especially personal healthcare insurance is NONE of the feds constitutional business.
Wait - I thought they wanted the ACA because we already had “an unprecedented public health crisis.”
Make up your minds, folks.
unless the hospitals are deregulated and develop immunity from lawyers
Ahh - the Washington Post posts more fake news...
This is BS - the hospitals may lose money due to not getting subsidized by the state but, if anything, they should easily find other profitability by increasing the number of surgeries and throughput rather than the current trend of doing the bare minimum to tag the checkbox on the medicare repay form.
Provide for your patients and not the government.
Medical liberty for all.
WaPo: An Fake News Site by their own admission.
Why not just abolish the mandate? If anyone wants to opt out, have them pay in with no benefits for the first two years of their enrollment.
There were news reports this AM that life expectancy is going DOWN in the US. Could it be that a lot of people are relying on a cure for everything, instead of taking responsibility for their own health?
Those who want their Obamacare can keep their Obamacare. But I sure as *ell don't want to subsidize them.
Liars
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... sorry, I call BS on this one... absolute BS.
Hospital’s would love to be able to return to a fee for service vs fee for outcome model.... They’ve seen their margins crushed under Obamacare.
This reminds me of the dire warnings coming from the teachers unions and other leftist groups in California in the late 1970s lamenting all sorts of dire consequences if proposition 13 were to pass. None of them came true.
Well, hospitals, maybe you should stop charging insured patients 70% more than you charge uninsured patients.
What say you? Fake news or any fact at all in this?
Yes! By golly, if you’ve got cancer AND insurance, they’ll offer to treat you right into the grave.
hospitals have now become places people go to die and their family become poor trying to pay for the $50 sample tube of moisturizing cream and band aids ect ect ect.
I’d like to see the list of hospitals whose administrators signed onto this pack of falsehoods.
They said the same thing when the law went into law.
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