Obamacare's Expensive, Intrusive Mandates Threaten Survival Of Many Hospitals

Obamacare is devastating to rural hospitals:

"In Colorado, another state that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, the Colorado Hospital Association chairwoman has recently indicated that a handful of hospitals are now on the watch list for closure. Similar closures will only continue to occur. This, of course, is all by design. Health and Human Services, the federal bureaucracy in charge of implementing Obamacare, is already pushing to close more rural hospitals due to the communities they serve not being densely populated enough.

When a patient suffers from a heart attack, doctors have a small window of opportunity to provide life-saving treatment. One farmer by the name of Bill Jones died while traveling more than two times the distance from where the family’s hospital was pre-Obamacare. Jones’ original hospital, only 9 miles away from his house, was forced to close because it could not afford the law’s electronic records mandate. Because of Obamacare, sick, rural Americans are literally dying from being forced to travel up to 100 miles just to receive care in emergency situations." More on this here.

Obamacare forcing more hospitals to close:

In Europe: "Apparently co-ed wards are now the norm. When wards are full, it is common to keep patients on gurneys in the hallways. Most doctors come from third world countries and have limited training. There is not enough money for adequate medical staff or hospital administration. Medical personnel are frustrated because they cannot provide proper care to all patients.

In America: "Small and mid-size hospitals are closing in inner cities and rural areas with a disproportionate number of Medicare/Medicaid patients.If you are lulled into a false sense of security because this cannot happen in the United States, think again. ObamaCare is causing a wave of small hospital closures across our country. According to Paul Bremer, "Eighteen acute-care hospitals across the United States shut their doors in 2013. At least 12 more hospitals have closed this year in rural areas alone. More are getting out the plywood to nail over windows and barricades for doors."

Reasons for closures are low reimbursements rates, bureaucrats telling doctors that some patient services are "not medically necessary," physician practices heavily dependent on government reimbursement, ObamaCare regulations that are too expensive to implement, high out of pocket expenses for the insured under ObamaCare, causing less people to go to the hospital, and economically depressed rural farming towns where locals cannot afford to go to the doctor or to the hospital.

Additionally, California hospitals are in danger of closing their doors due to the overwhelming influx of illegal aliens who are treated for free and have their anchor babies delivered free at huge costs to taxpayers. For more go here