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Red States Pressured To Expand Medicaid As Care Contrasts Emerge
Pressure is building on states to go along with the expansion of Medicaid benefits under the Affordable Care Act as new studies and financial reports from health care companies point out stark differences between states treating more poor Americans and those that arent.
One of the nations largest hospital operators, Tenet Healthcare THC 0% (THC), last week opened a window into the differences for patients and hospital financial coffers between those states with Medicaid dollars and those without.
In our five states that expanded Medicaid in 2014, we benefited from a significant migration of patients from uninsured into Medicaid with a 54% decline in uninsured admissions and a 27% decline in uninsured outpatient visits, Tenet chief executive Trevor Fetter said during the companys second-quarter earnings call last week.
Tenet saw across-the-board increases in admissions, outpatient visits, surgeries and emergency department visits, Fetter said.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2014/08/10/red-states-pressured-to-expand-medicaid-as-care-contrasts-emerge/?partner=yahootix
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Red States Pressured To Expand Medicaid As Care Contrasts Emerge (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2014
OP
Health corporations are losing a lot of money without red state Obamacare and almost free Medicare.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#4
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)1. ^^^^^This^^^^^
thanks bsis
malaise
(267,838 posts)2. Probably because the election ads are coming
THe always ignore empirical evidence - ads not so much
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Forbes. Nice.
The rich folks are trying to convince themselves to vote for us and work with us. Interesting.
-Laelth
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. Health corporations are losing a lot of money without red state Obamacare and almost free Medicare.
My imaginary freeway political ad billboard in these states would read:
Got Healthcare?
Vote Democrat
Get It?
Vote
And Get It!
tanyev
(42,362 posts)5. C'mon, health care companies. Lobby those GOP governors until they fold.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. Good luck!
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)7. Those GOP governors should be indicted for murder.
Their craven political move to block medicaid expansion killed, and will continue to kill, thousands of Americans each year.