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DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav

(408 posts)
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 02:59 AM Jan 2013

How can they have it both ways?

First we hear about many hospitals (especially in the south) having to close because people aren't paying them because people don't have insurance and can't afford to. Now I'm reading an article that I can't link here because it's a repub site, but now they're saying that a southwestern Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies because they can't afford to due to health care reform.

So which is it? Now they're going to get a guaranteed pay check because it'll be mandatory everyone have health insurance, and because of this they won't be able to afford to deliver babies? How is this worse than when they weren't getting paid at all?

I'm wondering who owns this hospital?

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onethatcares

(17,006 posts)
9. yep, just picture your
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 07:38 AM
Jan 2013

obstetrician (?) walking out cause he/she is up against the 30 hour rule.

 

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)
2. Darwin at work.
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 03:05 AM
Jan 2013

If people are too stupid to figure out how to make hospitals work in their area then Mother Nature will cull the herd.

 
4. Pretty much what my Dr said. The smart Dr's will make money through Obamacare, the dumb ones
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 03:10 AM
Jan 2013

don't need to be practicing anyway.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
7. Has it occurred to you the report is bullshit? If you can't post the source here, it probably is.
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 07:15 AM
Jan 2013

The hospital isn't even name.

Quit posting right-wing crap here.

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