Vandalshandle
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Your nonsense has been refuted. You just refuse to accept that you don't know about what you are talking.Dekster is talking about specific matters about which he has no specific knoweldge.
You have no idea what I have knowledge of. Refute it then. It should not be hard to see what medicare's policies are for LTCH and Acute Care hospitals. In the mean time, this about the time of day transports line up to transfer patients out of our local hospital to other facilities out of state.
You haven't said shit in 5K post except shit. It is not how life is. That 1 hospital a month is shutting down has not been refuted; that acute car facilities cannot be paid for LTC patients has not been refuted. Look at the medicare website. It will explain to you what a LTCH hospital is. I live in a city with exactly one hospital. The next closest hospital that is not a doc in the box is 63 miles away. The cost sharing provisions that may have existed 10 years ago when someone worked for an HMO answering phones have been eliminated to fund the PPACA which is why we are losing 1 hospital a month.
Well, hell, Dek, I have not even seen you link your assertion that one hospital closes every month. i'm not about to refute your assertions that I do not even believe.
Well it hasn't happened in your retirement village so it can't possibly be true:
Rural Hospitals Closing at Rate of 1 Per Month
I will not contest that hospitals are closing in places like Dogtrot, Iowa. That is also the reason that Southwest Airlines does not land next to the hog farm out there. So, what does that have to do with Medicare?
For scores of years, AT&T subsidized rural telephone service by seriously overcharging everyone for long distance service. It was part of the deal that they struck with the feds, in exchange for a telephone monopoly. Well, guess what? those days are over. I feel no particular need to pay hospitals more in my community in order to service places where it is impossible for them to sustain their existence in their own community.
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