Comments on: Bush Cuts Outpatient Medicaid Services http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: LiberalVoter http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-2832 LiberalVoter Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:23:54 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/#comment-2832 I have experienced the healthcare model they have in the UK and what we have here. I would be very happy to have a single payer and to get rid of the useless parasites such as Tenet which provide no benefit other than to their bank accounts on the backs of others. I have experienced the healthcare model they have in the UK and what we have here. I would be very happy to have a single payer and to get rid of the useless parasites such as Tenet which provide no benefit other than to their bank accounts on the backs of others.

]]> By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 stateofthedivision Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:09:04 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/#comment-2828 Disaster capitalism is still in play. http://www.linktv.org/programs/warning The shock to marginal people and safety net hospitals will be real. Capitalist for-profit chains can and will take advantage. Jeb Bush sits on the board of Tenet Healthcare, a large proprietary hospital chain. Disaster capitalism is still in play.

http://www.linktv.org/programs/warning

The shock to marginal people and safety net hospitals will be real. Capitalist for-profit chains can and will take advantage.

Jeb Bush sits on the board of Tenet Healthcare, a large proprietary hospital chain.

]]> By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-2826 stateofthedivision Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:24:45 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/08/bush-medicaid-cuts/#comment-2826 The Medicaid cut will impact hospitals serving large numbers of Medicaid patients. They also are the big providers of care for the uninsured. While Detroit and Wall Street talk about spin off effects from loss of employment, there are morbidity and mortality impacts from Bush's new regulation. Nonprofit community and teaching hospitals will take the brunt of the hurt from this rule change. That means turning away more people for truly nonemergent conditions. As the nonprofit hospital sector craters, they'll look for funding. Credit remains tight and unavailable for risky, i.e. stressed institutions. Some will look for merger partners, but many will make the same sense as combining Chrysler and GM. Merging two dogs makes for a bigger dog. So who will ride in to buy the distressed hospital on the cheap? Their for-profit hospital owners who have a much sweeter payor mix and access to capital through their large corporate structures. More disaster capitalism from Bush. The Medicaid cut will impact hospitals serving large numbers of Medicaid patients. They also are the big providers of care for the uninsured.

While Detroit and Wall Street talk about spin off effects from loss of employment, there are morbidity and mortality impacts from Bush’s new regulation.

Nonprofit community and teaching hospitals will take the brunt of the hurt from this rule change. That means turning away more people for truly nonemergent conditions.

As the nonprofit hospital sector craters, they’ll look for funding. Credit remains tight and unavailable for risky, i.e. stressed institutions.

Some will look for merger partners, but many will make the same sense as combining Chrysler and GM. Merging two dogs makes for a bigger dog.

So who will ride in to buy the distressed hospital on the cheap? Their for-profit hospital owners who have a much sweeter payor mix and access to capital through their large corporate structures.

More disaster capitalism from Bush.

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