Hospitals warn Trump, Congress of massive losses with Affordable Care Act repeal

[highplainsdem]

Source: WP

The nation’s hospital industry warned President-elect 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Hill’s top four leaders, saying that the government should help hospitals avoid massive financial losses if the law is rescinded in a way that causes a surge of uninsured patients.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.

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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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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hospitals-warn-trump-congress-of-massive-losses-with-affordable-care-act-repeal/2016/12/06/3de2f7de-bbd8-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html

[pbmus]

1. Unprecedented public health crisis ...

Well that is just about what the Trumpsters election has caused..

Kakistocracy

[lonestarnot]

2. Apparently pigliCONs love crisis. Naomi Kline Shock Doctrine. Still a good read.

[Ohioblue22]

4. During crisis you can steal . We are about to get fleeced

[GP6971]

3. You can gaurantee this...

They won't listen. it will just be ignored.

[duffyduff]

7. Oh, yes they will. These creeps want to be re-elected. n/t

[mountain grammy]

5. I was watching him today

I really do think he's an ugly man. Very unattractive. Maybe a 3 on a good day, but mostly a 2. You'd think with his money, he could look a little better. And those ridiculous hands.

[bdamomma]

15. take that stupid rug off his head

someone posted him on here without no hair an ugly ole man.

[duffyduff]

6. They will walk this one back, too.

There is NO mandate for the GOP to do anything to popular programs.

[JCMach1]

8. I think Trump will use this and the Medicare issue to drive a stake through Ryan

he will play possum, wait for opinion to turn (it will) and he will then flip-flop and veto 1 or both measures.

At that point Ryan will be done ...

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Trump's not smart enough, but

Bannon might be and he hates Ryan.

[JCMach1]

14. Exactly, it's Bannon

Watch this space

[davsand]

9. Three words that will kill any initiative? Bad For Business

I was never a huge fan of the Obamacare structure precisely BECAUSE it was designed to feed the medical and the insurance industries bank balances. But I sure do have an appreciation for seeing greed hoist Ryan and his merry band now. Suddenly that cash cow is threatened and it is scaring hell outta them. The corporate masters have spoken, and now the back peddling is gonna hit defcon five.


Laure

[NastyRiffraff]

10. Another warning to Trump

Don't these people realize that whatever warnings they issue to the Orange Monster go unheeded, because he doesn't care. Hospitals and doctors warn him about destroying the ACA, top security analysts warn him about his pick for National Security Adviser, he's been warned about not reading the PDBs and not paying attention in general.

He. Does. Not. Care. This is what the media doesn't realize. Rachel did a long segment on his Taiwan phone call and why it was a very big deal. She said she didn't know if he did it deliberately to be provocative maybe, or if he had no idea what he was doing. Left out of that analysis: He. Does. Not. Care. This is just another reality show to him.

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. Exactly. He doesn't give a shit.

There is no way to shame this narcissistic asshole.

[Amishman]

12. The system itself is broken

Medical care is just too insanely expensive and we need to dig in and work out why

With the ACA, insurers are taking huge losses on care provided.

Without the ACA, hospitals will take huge losses on care provided.

The problem isn't who is paying, the problem is the size of the bill!

[blue neen]

16. Ah, but some hospital systems now own health insurance companies and vice versa.

Check out UPMC and Allegheny Health Network in western PA.

These Republican SOB's have got a real dilemma on their hands...but it's not 1/10 as bad as those of us sitting here wondering if we'll be without insurance and without healthcare.

[roamer65]

17. The first hospitals to close will be ones in rural areas.

Not only will many rural Trump lovers lose their health insurance, they will lose their hospitals as well.

They will either die in ambulances on the long journey, or will die waiting for care in the overcrowded remaining hospitals in urban areas.

[wishstar]

18. About time for the medical industry lobby to kick in since they like having ACA insured patients

The medical industry has expanded facilities because of the influx of customers due to Obamacare. New walk-in clinics, urgent care facilities and hospital additions have been built over the past 2 years or are currently in construction just in order to handle the demand now that more people are covered