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Originally Posted by LordBalfor The government is NOT taking over reimbursement.
Geeze!
The amount of ignorance out there about this bill is UNBELIEVABLE.
Ken
of course they are not taking over reimbursement, they are not going to pay it, as they have done so with medicaid.
And lest we forget, the GOVERNMENT sets the reimbursement rates.
Perhaps the AMA and the Docs are just happy that the Govt isnt looking at them...yet.
Good enough reason to point at the Insurance industry and say...they are very bad.
If doctors are SOOOOOO Cheap...why dont we pay out of pocket? Govt Run Hospitals coming next?
What do you call state university hospitals, county hospitals, city-owned hospitals, etc. These institutions have been around for a century, longer in some places.
What do you call state university hospitals, county hospitals, city-owned hospitals, etc. These institutions have been around for a century, longer in some places.
Umm they are dropping like flies. They are in such dire economic straights because of unsustainable reimbursement levels.
What do you call state university hospitals, county hospitals, city-owned hospitals, etc. These institutions have been around for a century, longer in some places.
I call our county hospital profitable. I pay a large amount of property tax that funds this hospital and they turn uninsured US citizens away and tell them to go to urgent care while delivering babies from women who crossed the border so their child would be a US citizen.
I call our county hospital profitable. I pay a large amount of property tax that funds this hospital and they turn uninsured US citizens away and tell them to go to urgent care while delivering babies from women who crossed the border so thier child would be a US citizen.
now that truly blows, maybe next time that hospital should call ICE on the illegal and helpthe american.
What do you call state university hospitals, county hospitals, city-owned hospitals, etc. These institutions have been around for a century, longer in some places.
In all fairness, our county hospital, John H. Stroger Hospital (formerly known as Cook County Hospital), has undergone mass layoffs and restructuring. It is in such a bad state of repair that our former county board president John Stroger (for whom the hospital was named after) refused to go there when he suffered a stroke a couple years ago. How pathetic is that? You name a hospital after yourself, then don't even patronize your flagship hospital? It's that bad.
Of course, this is Chicago too, so it's somewhat expected.
of course they are not taking over reimbursement, they are not going to pay it, as they have done so with medicaid.
Private insurance is NOT going away.
If you have private insurance now you will have private insurance THEN.
The government has NOTHING to do with the rates that private insurance pays.
That will NOT change.
Private insurance is NOT going away.
If you have private insurance now you will have private insurance THEN.
The government has NOTHING to do with the rates that private insurance pays.
That will NOT change.
Ken
Ken, surely you know that private insurance reimbursement rates are based off the medicare rates. You DO know that, don't you??
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