http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
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The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
Most of the seniors I know say that they are shifting more of the cost onto them, shortening hospital stays and forcing them to do a lot of things that would have been included in their hospital stay in the past as outpatient procedures before admittance or after discharge. Not so much a "blame Obama/PPACA" thing as a crappy way the medical industry is always finding a work around to anything that puts their Wednesday afternoon golf game at the country club in jeopardy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
Most of the seniors I know say that they are shifting more of the cost onto them, shortening hospital stays and forcing them to do a lot of things that would have been included in their hospital stay in the past as outpatient procedures before admittance or after discharge. Not so much a "blame Obama/PPACA" thing as a crappy way the medical industry is always finding a work around to anything that puts their Wednesday afternoon golf game at the country club in jeopardy.
You got it!
If there is a readmission hospitals get fined big time.
It is a blame the PPACA thing because the rules are outlined in the ACA.
There is no recourse, that I'm currently aware of, to allow a readmission for the same condition within 30 days. So guess what happens?
It's like the 24 hour delivery.
They pay far less than it costs though.Some people still think Medicare is a giveaway. Its not free and the recipients pay for it.
She should be in a medicare advantage plan so that her deductible would decrease (or be removed entirely) and there would be no 80/20 copay.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
Most of the seniors I know say that they are shifting more of the cost onto them, shortening hospital stays and forcing them to do a lot of things that would have been included in their hospital stay in the past as outpatient procedures before admittance or after discharge. Not so much a "blame Obama/PPACA" thing as a crappy way the medical industry is always finding a work around to anything that puts their Wednesday afternoon golf game at the country club in jeopardy.
You got it!
If there is a readmission hospitals get fined big time.
It is a blame the PPACA thing because the rules are outlined in the ACA.
There is no recourse, that I'm currently aware of, to allow a readmission for the same condition within 30 days. So guess what happens?
It's like the 24 hour delivery.
It is the profit-motive involved. My mom was in 3 different hospitals in the last 6 weeks of her life. The first was a for profit that wanted her gone once Day 4 rolled around. We had to transfer her to another for-profit long stay hospital about an hour away that had so many beds set aside for longer-term patients but made up the difference by not being glitzy like the first but just being no-frills care oriented. After a post surgery complication, she was transferred to a large non-profit hospital that spared no expense in caring for her as aggressively as they could in trying to save her life. The billed charges for the last hospital was around $400K and we had to pay about $1K in uncovered charges. We had to pay the first hospital about $3K that bum rushed her because they got the co-pay plus they had done some stuff prior to her admittance as an outpatient that had an 80/20 copay.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/paul-krugman-the-medicare-miracle.html?smid=fb-share
The RW may now begin throwing rocks....
Most of the seniors I know say that they are shifting more of the cost onto them, shortening hospital stays and forcing them to do a lot of things that would have been included in their hospital stay in the past as outpatient procedures before admittance or after discharge. Not so much a "blame Obama/PPACA" thing as a crappy way the medical industry is always finding a work around to anything that puts their Wednesday afternoon golf game at the country club in jeopardy.
You got it!
If there is a readmission hospitals get fined big time.
It is a blame the PPACA thing because the rules are outlined in the ACA.
There is no recourse, that I'm currently aware of, to allow a readmission for the same condition within 30 days. So guess what happens?
It's like the 24 hour delivery.
It is the profit-motive involved. My mom was in 3 different hospitals in the last 6 weeks of her life. The first was a for profit that wanted her gone once Day 4 rolled around. We had to transfer her to another for-profit long stay hospital about an hour away that had so many beds set aside for longer-term patients but made up the difference by not being glitzy like the first but just being no-frills care oriented. After a post surgery complication, she was transferred to a large non-profit hospital that spared no expense in caring for her as aggressively as they could in trying to save her life. The billed charges for the last hospital was around $400K and we had to pay about $1K in uncovered charges. We had to pay the first hospital about $3K that bum rushed her because they got the co-pay plus they had done some stuff prior to her admittance as an outpatient that had an 80/20 copay.
That's the way it was long before ObamaCare but don't let that stop you knee-jerk, low-info types from blaming Obama.
In case you missed it, @@Luddly Neddite,
Reagan and Conservatives were yelling about govt socializing medicine back in the 1960's
In case you missed it, @@Luddly Neddite,
Reagan and Conservatives were yelling about govt socializing medicine back in the 1960's
In case you missed it Emily, ObamaCare is the opposite of "socialized medicine" and, to my knowledge, the @mention no longer exists. Instead, we have "alerts", of which, since I don't read them, I currently have 481.
Medicare spending isn’t just lower than experts predicted a few years ago. On a per-person basis, Medicare spending is actually falling.
If the pattern continues, as the Congressional Budget Office forecasts, it will be a rarity in the Medicare program’s history. Spending per Medicare patient has almost always grown more rapidly than the economy as a whole, often by a wide margin.