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While Kentucky has gained national prominence as the only Southern state to fully embrace Obamacare, its hospitals say the law has left them facing billions of dollars in cuts and forced them to lay off staff, shut down services and worry for their financial health and, in some cases, survival."
The Kentucky Hospital Association outlined its concerns in a report released Friday called "Code Blue," saying payment cuts to hospitals are expected to reach nearly $7 billion through 2024. "Kentucky hospitals will lose more money under the Affordable Care Act than they gain in revenue from expanded coverage," it said, experiencing a net loss of $1 billion by 2020.
"This report provides the real picture of what our hospitals are facing," KHA President Mike Rust said during a press conference at the Lexington Convention Center, where the group was holding its annual convention.
Wasn't Obamacare officially known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What happened to affordable? These people must be wrong. Obama would not lie to the American people like that.
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It wasn't always true, but today the Federal government = incompetence, waste, and failure.
So what can you expect if it takes over management of a huge complicated part of the economy, and does it with a million pages of law and regulation passed by partisans?
Answer: A huge complicated partisan failure of waste and incompetence.
It has hurt 100 people for every one it helped. I personally know 100 people it has hurt, I'm still looking for the 1 it helped.
Obamacare is an example of where I mostly agree with Trump when he puts down the country. We are losing. In fact we have already lost. We have lost our ability to do anything effectively. Even small things like running an elementary school, and definitely big things. We can't even fix the infrastructure that we built from scratch in the past with antiquated technology and methods. It's like our parents left us the house when they died, and we can't even change a lightbulb in it now. Why is that? Big government has soiled everything with regulation, and the corruption that it's designed to proliferate.
Obamacare - passed on party line vote in the dead of night.
"We got to pass it to see what's in it."
I wonder how many flaming poo bags Pelosi stepped in on Halloween, before she realized what was in them.
On the negative side for Trump, his attacks on Rubio's finances are lame, and dishonest. A billionaire with four bankruptcies attacking a middle class guy for using credit legally just like every middle class American is dumb politics too.
On the negative side for Trump, his attacks on Rubio's finances are lame, and dishonest. A billionaire with four bankruptcies attacking a middle class guy for using credit legally just like every middle class American is dumb politics too.
Indeed. Trump is using the same bullcrap attack the MSM is using against Rubio.
Well, I am enjoying a big dose of Schadenfreude. The American Hospital Association and all of their little state chapters and local entities ponied up and supported the Obamacare revolution when they should have been speaking up against it. They thought they were going to win big, but even I, a little nobody doctor in Ohio, could see the writing on the wall. They got not only what they deserved, but what they shilled for.
@sydney/
They got what anybody over the age of, say, twelve and with an IQ marginally in double digits would have seen was blindingly intuitively obvious..
There was one putative Republican that voted for ACA. Chief Sh*thead John Roberts. Twice.
Well, I've said it before, but Roberts had two opportunities to decide on the side of the people and instead sided on the side of the insurance industry and the president, all so he can be invited to their parties. Roberts actually sided for government to compel, remember this word, Compel, a citizen to either comply with buying a product from government or be fined in the form of a tax. There is no other option. Where is freedom and liberty in this case? Nowhere and CJ Roberts clearly believed that a citizen must be literally and figuratively attached to his government at the point of compulsion. Now someone tell me again how this is even remotely just?
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