Report: Health Care Providers Could Lose $1.7 Trillion In Revenue With ACA Repeal

[WyLoochka]

20. Good thing?

I want the only hospital in my small town to be there, ready to deliver full medical care services to my family and friends when needed.

In the next town, 25 miles away, the hospital is in bankruptcy, the hospice was closed, the closest skilled nursing facility is another 20 miles away.

The providers already took the reduced payment hit in the ACA, based on the trade off in the law providing for compensated care for the previously uninsured that would be covered through individual subsidies and Medicaid expansion, which this red, red, red state did not enact out of ill informed, short sighted, stubbornness.

Our local providers are teetering on the brink financially as it is. They are able to provide compensated care to individuals who obtained insurance through the subsidized ACA exchange plan, but they still treat the uninsured in the emergency room. The most expensive place to provide treatment.

Even our largest medical center in our state, 200 miles away is in dire financial straits.

By no definition would further cataclysmic cuts ensuing from the repeal of the ACA be a "good thing" here. I fear, realistically, that our hospital and the few ancillary oncology, primary care, surgical, orthopedic clinics and other providers would be forced into bankruptcy and disappear etc