Posted by Tina
What would you say if you learned our government would fine and punish with mounds of additional paperwork charitable non-profit hospitals for simply treating the uninsured? I hope you would say it would tick you off. I hope you would say it would make you think that the evil thinking in the White House had just crossed over a red hot bright line…I hope your opinion of this administration, and especially the leader of the pack, just dropped several thousand notches.
Daily Caller serves up the rotten news:
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 health insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS….
Hospitals could face fines of up to $50,000.00 if they fail to meet new guidelines and/or, god forbid, fail to fill out the added stacks of paperwork without error!
Single payer, the ultimate goal of this bunch of bandits, including president-in-waiting Hillary, is a government run and administered monopoly, people. The purpose for such shenanigans in the ACA is a population tearing their hair and crying out for a monopoly run by a socialist mob and enforced by our very own underhanded IRS. Read the article and weep for the healthcare industry and for the American people should we fail to relegate this bunch of turkey burgers to the ash heap of history!
Calm down…deep breaths…the ACA is less popular by the day and Democrats continue to join with Republicans in efforts to rid our nation of this abomination. Things like this are feeding the frenzy to end Obamacare now. Republicans in the House have also crafted reforms to replace the ACA; reforms that will serve Americans, bring costs down, and not cause confusion, mounds of paperwork, more expense and higher premiums, loss of doctors, cuts or delays in services, or add to the national debt.
Please pray for our country, if you are so inclined, and do vote wisely the next time you get the chance!
Praying the House will pass the CR to defund ObamaCare while still allocating the necessary funds to run the rest of the country. The Republicans need to get their message out and stop the lying liberals from telling everyone they want to shut down the country. We don’t want the government shut down, we want ObamaCare shut down by taking away its operating funds.
I also hope people will say enough of this craziness and draw a big line in the sand when they understand there already are and there will be more “Death Panels” that will be deciding care based on cost. Oregon’s panel is already denying care to poor people and Howard Dean, former DNC chair, in his WSJ article basically says Sarah Palin was right all along.
Read it and weep for the poor people who won’t get the care they need while the rich will because they’ll be able to pay out of pocket for concierge health care already being set up all over the country.
WSJ/Howard Dean – The Affordable Care Act’s Rate-Setting Won’t Work:
…“That said, the law still has its flaws, and American lawmakers and citizens have both an opportunity and responsibility to fix them.
One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting—the essential mechanism of the IPAB—has a 40-year track record of failure. What ends up happening in these schemes (which many states including my home state of Vermont have implemented with virtually no long-term effect on costs) is that patients and physicians get aggravated because bureaucrats in either the private or public sector are making medical decisions without knowing the patients. Most important, once again, these kinds of schemes do not control costs. The medical system simply becomes more bureaucratic.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has indicated that the IPAB, in its current form, won’t save a single dime before 2021. As everyone in Washington knows, but less frequently admits, CBO projections of any kind—past five years or so—are really just speculation. I believe the IPAB will never control costs based on the long record of previous attempts in many of the states, including my own state of Vermont.
If Medicare is to have a secure future, we have to move away from fee-for-service medicine, which is all about incentives to spend more, and has no incentives in the system to keep patients healthy. The IPAB has no possibility of helping to solve this major problem and will almost certainly make the system more bureaucratic and therefore drive up administrative costs.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578628542498014414.html
Oregon Health Care Board Denies Chemotherapy, Will Push Rationing Under Obamacare:
“Oregon rations healthcare to Medicaid recipients. Terminal cancer patients are denied chemotherapy to extend life–and now the Oregon rationing board wants to go deeper into the weeds.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/oregon-health-care-board-denies-chemotherapy-will-push-rationing-under-obamacare/
Wonder what John Roberts thinks of his SCOTUS ruling now?
Seems to me that with all of the “specials” Obumble has added in like the exemption for Clowngress & Staff which is specifically addressed in Obumblecare and waivers to unions, there’s a great opportunity for another legal challenge of discriminatory application of the law.
Any laws passed should apply to ALL – not to a select few. And the last time I looked, it was the Executive Branch’s job to enforce the law – not pick and choose which to follow and which to ignore.
The Taxocrats in Clowngress passed this monstrosity and they deserve ALL the credit. ‘Specially when it comes time to vote in 2014 . . . . And to those who don’t know whom to vote for? At least figure out whom to vote AGAINST!
Obamacare isn’t real insurance. Real insurance allows people to voluntarily group together to share in the losses of a few, i.e. risk-sharing. Obamacare is all about cost effective and is more a political and social program established as insurance.
So when everyone sees their “premiums” and deductibles rising, don’t blame it on “insurance” but put the blame where it belongs; on the politics and tax policy of the Democratic party.