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LOL! Rural hospitals CLOSING due to red states refusing Medicaid expansion!

Zalatix

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/upshot/a-sense-of-alarm-as-rural-hospitals-keep-closing.html
ROTFLMAO... Conservative states are losing hospitals in the areas where Trump voters rule the land. I have some ****s to give - so in the spirit of Free Market Capitalism I am selling them for a billion dollars apiece... pity I'm all out of stock, though.

Considering that hospitals closing leads to Trump voters dying, I guess I can say their pain is America's gain... and they brought this mess upon themselves, no less.

#TOPKEK
 

Hmm...


Not every business that fails is bad news for consumers.
 
Rural Hospitals have been closing for 30 maybe 40 years.

This assertion is going to require proof.
 

From your quote:

Beyond the potential health consequences for the people living nearby, hospital closings can exact an economic toll, and are associated with some states’ decisions not to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act.
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Some people associate 9/11 with the US government perpetrating it. Doesn't mean that is the reason that 9/11 actually happened.

Here's what I know. All the health professionals that I have talked to started dropping medicaid after Obamacare was passed because of the difficulties that they were having with 1: getting the payments due to them for services rendered. 2: The government was lowering the amount that they would pay for things. Doctors receive less pay by taking on medicaid recipients than they do with private insurance carriers.
 

Red:
Good.

Blue:
Yep.

Pink:
Yep.
 

Good job, laughing at hospitals serving poor people closing. Do you get a kick out of the holocaust, the death march of Bataan, ethnic cleansing?
 

Just a truly kooky comment. Trump voters die because hospitals are closing? Wacko stuff....
 
Since 2010, nearly 90 rural hospitals have shut their doors. By one estimate, hundreds of other rural hospitals are at risk of doing so.
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What was passed in 2010? OBAMA CARE. Thank you Obama care again. Not only did I not get my $2500.00 in reduced health care I no longer have a hospital to go to. What is next?
God help us.
 

Before you laugh too hard this has been happening for decades in California due in part to unpaid care for illegal aliens.
 
If a state doesn't want to pay for its hospitals (even with extremely generous federal matching funds) then it's going to end up with fewer hospitals. Yes, implementing the Medicaid expansion and getting additional revenue to cash starved rural hospitals would've saved a number of them. But, you know, Obama.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Rural Hospitals have been closing for 30 maybe 40 years.

This assertion is going to require proof.
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So, why would they refuse Medicaid expansion or other assistance? Their residents are poor.
 


More attention should be focused on the absolute disaster Republicans have been in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Lousiana. Not just hospital closings but schools running on 4 day weeks. This after slashing taxes for the rich.

Tax Cuts Put Oklahoma In A Bind. Now Gov. Fallin Wants To Raise Taxes

 

This isn't funny. These people are shooting themselves in the foot voting against healthcare.

Let's hope that enough of them can wake up by the time they vote next week.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm...



Not every business that fails is bad news for consumers.
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Cramming more people into fewer hospital beds and making them travel longer for care... well I guess there are many ways to sweeten **** and make it taste good, eh?
 
Phys251 said:
This isn't funny. These people are shooting themselves in the foot voting against healthcare.

Let's hope that enough of them can wake up by the time they vote next week.
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They won't. Which is why I'm laughing. Schadenfreude for real.
 
Zalatix said:
Cramming more people into fewer hospital beds and making them travel longer for care... well I guess there are many ways to sweeten **** and make it taste good, eh?
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One of them is expanded Medicaid but that does not address those that still (must?) seek EMTALA care like 12 (to 20) million illegal immigrants.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
What was passed in 2010? OBAMA CARE. Thank you Obama care again. Not only did I not get my $2500.00 in reduced health care I no longer have a hospital to go to. What is next?
God help us.
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The OP said these closings were happening in states which didn't accept Obama's Medicaid expansion. Blaming Obamacare may feel good, but the most pain is in the states which refused to take full advantage of Obamacare.

From the article cited in the OP:

 
Fledermaus said:
Before you laugh too hard this has been happening for decades in California due in part to unpaid care for illegal aliens.
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Those are in rural areas, and right wing ****holes like Modesto.

Rural areas are petri dishes of cancerous right wing hate no matter what state they're in.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
What was passed in 2010? OBAMA CARE. Thank you Obama care again. Not only did I not get my $2500.00 in reduced health care I no longer have a hospital to go to. What is next?
God help us.
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And this is a bad thing because why?
 

Nothing in your article supports your contention that theses hospitals are closing because of Medicaid, excluding all other reasons.
 

The Democratic Party and so many Democrats top to bottom continuously publicly declaring they want senior citizen Americans to die is not the most persuasive of possible campaign issues for Democratic candidates, is it?
 
Geezus, man. Your gloating and wishing death upon them is as bad as the worst Trumper. And that's not a good thing.
 
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