Since my double diagnosis of cancer I have been watching the crap being pulled on the US healthcare system.
This subject is an ever changing one thanks to the mindless decisions made by Donny and that pack of idiots our healthcare depends upon….idiots like Oz and RFK,Jr….neither is especially bright.
Since the ill advised policies of Donny and his GOP Lackeys the strain on hospitals has increased….
Months after congressional Republicans refused to extend enhanced subsidies for Americans who receive their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, hospitals across the US are seeing a surge in uninsured patients seeking emergency medical care.
According to a Thursday report in The New York Times, executives at large hospital systems have been raising alarms over “the unexpectedly sharp rise in uninsured patients and the costs associated with treating them.”
With many uninsured patients unable to pay their hospital bills, the Times noted, hospitals are seeing “lost revenues amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars across the country’s vast health systems.”
The Times linked this surge in uninsured patients directly to the Republican-controlled Congress allowing more generous subsidies for plans purchased through the ACA to lapse at the end of 2025. Enrollment in the program has fallen by about 3 million people since last year.
“What that tells me is that there are patients who are completely unable to pay,” Laura Kaiser, chief executive of Catholic nonprofit hospital group SSM Health, told the Times. “We’re really crushing people who are desperately trying to pay their bills.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uninsured-emergency-room-surge
And believe it or not people voted for this asshole.
Then there are the policies for those who get Medicaid….
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements that go into effect this coming January.
While introducing over $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans, last year’s massive GOP tax and budget bill also imposed new 80-hour-per-month work requirements that states must implement for Medicaid expansion recipients, who receive government-subsidized insurance coverage at or below 138% of the poverty line.
The law specified that those who are “medically frail or otherwise have special medical needs” are excluded from the work requirement, and specifically listed people with a “serious or complex medical condition.” But it remained unclear what exact conditions met these criteria.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule stating that even if a person receives a terminal diagnosis for a disease like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or Parkinson’s, that is still not enough for them to be exempt from the work requirements.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170
These are just the latest incidents……there will be more before it ever gets better….if that is even possible.
I hope people in the UK are watching these turns for their NHS is under attack and this could be them as well….down the road.
Americans need to be thinking…..Medicare For All!
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The new work rules for Medicaid (the program here in Wisconsin is called Badgercare) will immediately throw about 63,000 people out of the program and put another 200,000 in serious jeopardy of losing access to healthcare here. I won’t tell you how many people will die nation wide because they will lose access to health care because of this. It’s too depressing.
Here in Mississippi the stats are not being reported but I would say that it is about the same….we have a lot of people on Medicaid and they are not paying attention to what is being done….I agree deaths will soar…..but that is whata they are counting on…..will save money. chuq
I often wonder what all those rich people happily denying medical care to poorer and seriously ill people think is going to happen once all of those predominantly working-class people die. Who is going to drive the trains, work in the hotels, manufacture goods, buy those manufactured goods, build the houses, cut the timber, work on the farms, collect the garbage, run the sewage plants, rig the phone systems and electricity cables, and cut the grass on their expansive lawns?
Perhaps they are counting on AI to save the day with robots.
Best wishes, Pete.
Good questions….AI cannot solve every problem….but that does not matter to these thieves. chuq
I guess what is happening with healthcare is better than some of the stories I have heard about other countries throughout history … there was this one government, somewhere on the globe in about 1939-45 where hospitals and doctors were actually reported to have been found to have caused patient deaths by government decree….while I find a nightmarish suggestive narrative in what is happening here on a more refined basis, I think the end result will be about the same or similar and i too wonder what the powers that be have in mind other than to somehow cause the purge of the sick and disabled among us. I hope somebody who reads this can set me straight or explain a few things to me.
The pursuit of profit will kill us all in the long run. chuq