Little discussed fact: Hospital care will decline for EVERYONE, insured or not,

[pnwmom]

under the new health care law.

When hospitals are underfunded and understaffed -- as they will be, thanks to the consequences of this bill (which retains the reductions in Medicare reimbursement and provides no reimbursement for care for the indigent) -- this affects EVERYONE who eventually has to use those hospitals.

That is, virtually all of us.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yep, pretty much...

People are a bit too focused on the exchanges and not paying attention to the parts of the ACA that affect ALL of healthcare for everybody.

[bigbrother05]

2. Which is a double whammy for woman's health with the frontal attack on Planned Parenthood

[vlyons]

3. less money for hospitals and clinic means

health workers laid off and some clinics and hospitals will close

[marybourg]

4. People who didn't know that the ACA

is Obamacare certainly don't know this fact. Another media fail. Except maybe for NPR and PBS.

[dalton99a]

5. "I guarantee it"

[SunSeeker]

6. Yep, back to 18 hour wait times at the ER as it reverts to the uninsureds' only healthcare provider.

And 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of health coverage.

[mopinko]

7. transparency and accountability for hospital will also go away.

there are many parts of the aca that are about better outcomes for all of us. you can assume they are not part of the 19 pages, or whatever it is.

but there was data mining to establish best practices, one reason that emr's were required.
penalties for medicare readmissions.
better medicare/caid fraud detection.
free preventive care and vaccines.
mental health parity.

on and on.
all gone.
for everyone.
before they even knew they had it.