Hospitals worry about caring for newly uninsured in GOP plan

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Hospitals worry about caring for newly uninsured in GOP plan
Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press Updated 1:21 pm, Sunday, March 12, 2017


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When Colorado expanded Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama's health care law, the largest provider in the Denver region hired more than 250 employees and built a $27 million primary care clinic and two new school-based clinics.

Emergency rooms visits stayed flat as Denver Health Medical Center directed many of the nearly 80,000 newly insured patients into one of its 10 community health centers, where newly hired social workers and mental health therapists provided services for some of the county's poorest residents. Demand for services at the new primary care clinic was almost immediate.

 
The hospital system, like others around the country, now is facing enormous uncertainty under the health care overhaul proposed by congressional Republicans.

The GOP plan would scale back the Medicaid expansion and take away direct federal subsidies to help consumers pay their health insurance premiums, replacing them with age-adjusted tax credits.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Hospitals-worry-about-caring-for-newly-uninsured-10995990.php

[blue neen]

1. And, as a result, people will lose healthcare jobs because of this legislation.

On top of all of the other bad things about Don'tCare.

[dalton99a]

2. Excellent point.

[blue neen]

3. Unfortunately, the GOP is all about "taking down" rather than "building up".

Well, with the exception of the rich. They'll help the rich any chance they can get.

[targetpractice]

5. Why call it "Don'tCare"?

"TrumpCare" is better, IMHO... He's such a narcissist that he will not want his name on a risky endeavor.

"Don'tCare" is branding for the public, but Donald J Trump is the one person that can/will veto the law if he thinks he'll be associated with the consequences. Obama was proud to have his name associated with the Affordable Care Act. Donald Trump clearly does not want his name associated with current GOP American Healthcare Act.... His surrogates are vigorously chastising any interviewer that uses "TrumpCare" as a label. It's obvious that he's nervous about it... Exploit his narcissism.

We Democrats need to learn more about marketing and branding.

[blue neen]

6. DonaldTrumpCare Equals Don'tCare.

Or we could put it DonTCare/DonT-Care/Don'TCare. Maybe put more of an emphasis on the T.

[targetpractice]

10. Trump is all about the "Trump" brand...

He knows this bill is a stinker, and he doesn't want to want it to sully his brand (i.e., the resistance from his surrogates when it's called "TrumpCare&quot ... I'm suggesting one strategy to defeat might be to tie it to the Trump brand... He'll veto it rather than be associated with it.

I understand what you are proposing, but this is psychological warfare with a narcissist-in-chief... We don't need to convince the public... The majority already has insurance with employers or doesn't feel the the ACA needs to be repealed...

The underlying issue is that the GOP does not want the first black President or the Democratic party to go down in history for fixing healthcare in the United States. That's why they want to break it.

So... If they break it... we should label the new thing "TrumpCare" to let the public know who broke it.

The Republicans label the ACA as Obamacare, label us as the "Democrat" party, and made "liberal" a dirty word. Why can't we play the same game?

[blue neen]

14. I hear ya.

[Sunlei]

23. "TrumpCare" what a Great, Great suggestion.

I'd vote for YOU

[tblue37]

7. Republicare. Don't let them shift all the blame to Cheato when they ditch him. nt

[Blue Idaho]

19. Yup!

Republicare places the blame directly where it belongs. We can use it to empty the House and Senate of all those Ayn Randers and racists.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "age-adjusted tax credits"

These are irrelevant to low income and unemployed people

tax credits you get back next April 15. You have to float the bucks to buy the insurance before then.

[riversedge]

8. And the amt. recieved will buy them junk insurance.

[Kimchijeon]

24. Yeah exactly. Low income people can't afford it

and besides, the only thing out there will be garbage insurance. Like throwing money down the drain for a crappy "healthcare coupon plan" that doesn't cover shit.

[Beartracks]

9. Remember when Romney thought indigent care at the ER was valid "affordable healthcare"?

Republicans never learn.

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[McCamy Taylor]

11. This is going to destroy small towns which have finally experienced growth

due to the access to health care providers. Watch hospitals, clinics and providers flee to the better insure suburbs and cities---and the insured will flee with them..

Trump has screwed rural America.,

[Heartstrings]

12. Who it hurts the most...

TrumpCare or The Deplorable Care Act, plus cuts to Medicaid will hurt those who need it the most: the elderly not quite old enough for Medicare or needing additional assistance with Medicare, an unborn whose mother was unable to get prenatal care, the child born to that mother who needs extensive hospitalization care after birth, anyone disabled, anyone with a mental illness or an addiction plus other scenarios yet tbd...
Did the ACA need tweaking? Absolutely! Certainly not this way tho...

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Welcome to DU, Heartstrings!

I agree, the effect on this country will be disastrous.

[Heartstrings]

18. Thanks Rhiannon12866

Nice to be among the sane!

[Sunlei]

22. good points. Medicaid is already confusing to elderly, disabled, & mentally ill persons. without it

What are these Americans to do without decent medical care and help from trained medical professionals?

Die alone in their bed from starvation?, wander the streets homeless until police shoot or jail them?

[gopiscrap]

25. welcome to DU

[Heartstrings]

27. Thank you!

Thanks! Good to be among the like minded!

[pfitz59]

13. Emergency rooms once again flooded with the uninsured.

Seeking routine care and treatment. The most expensive kind of Socialized Medicine.

[Sunlei]

21. yes and thousands of "medical JOBS lost" administrating to INSURED people. OUR LOCAL police &

Our Local-fire departments/police overwhelmed with 911 calls asking for help for extremely sick people.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. The real plan is to break the healthcare system as they have public schools.

Each year they take more money away and the result is to overload the system that is left. Then they say the system is at fault and is broken so they can take more money out of it for tax breaks for the wealthy donors who spend some of that same break re-electing the legislators who voted for the tax breaks. It is a money laundering system.

[Sgent]

16. Keep in mind

that pre-ACA, hospitals received billions of dollars of aid (disproportionate share funds) every year to help care for the uninsured. That was eliminated with the ACA since it was assumed everyone would have insurance / medicaid. The republican bill doesn't restore that money.

[Sunlei]

20. Millions of uninsured crawling or dropped at parking lots for emergency rooms. They should worry.

Thousands of medical JOBS lost treating todays MILLIONS of INSURED Americans

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Dont worry, the GOP will make it so hospitals and related expenses cant be

reimbursed for non insured or accounted for by the premiums paid by the insured, etc., thus allowing the for profit hospitals to turn people away so they can then die and this solves the problem.

It all makes perfect sense if you are a fascist dictator narcissist. Bannon, Ryan, and Trump too.