More unintended consequences of Obamacare - Galt's Gulch

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More unintended consequences of Obamacare

Posted by blarman 9 years, 8 months ago to Business

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EMS services are now getting cancelled?

To quote on of my Dad's favorite bands CCR:
"I see a bad moon risin'.
I see trouble on the way..."

SOURCE URL: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/ems-company-to-end-most-indiana-services

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Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 8 months ago

Pelosi: "...we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." One would have thought an olfactory sense would have been sufficient to know it was a mule-muffin sandwich.

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  Posted by Susanne 9 years, 8 months ago
  
  +1 for "Mule-Muffin". Tho I thought that was her hair style...
  
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    Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 8 months ago
    
    +1 for hair style! I laughed so hard I almost dislocated a rib. :)
    
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Posted by Snoogoo 9 years, 8 months ago

It has also affected volunteer fire departments who are now required by law to provide insurance to the volunteers. (The law considers them employees) Some have disbanded entirely when they are unable to come up with the funding to cover the healthcare costs.

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  Posted by blarman 9 years, 8 months ago
  
  Wow. I hadn't heard that. That's really a problem. I'd suggest posting a link under your own thread.
  
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    Posted by Snoogoo 9 years, 8 months ago
    
    I just did a little research and it seems like since the time I read the article they "changed" the rule. Apparently enough people complained. Now volunteer emergency departments are exempt. It seems to go along with the general approach now of the dems changing their hallmark legislation after the fact in an attempt at damage control:
    
    http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2...
    
    But of course this now changes the position of the general public, we have to ask for things that before, were a given. It's like giving a monarch absolute power and then having to petition the King for mercy. That's usually when the bribes start coming in.
    
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Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 8 months ago

It may be giving the designers of Obamacare too much credit to call this an "unintended" consequence.

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  Posted by blarman 9 years, 8 months ago
  
  It very well may be.
  
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Posted by Mimi 9 years, 8 months ago

I wonder if this will bring back the station wagon?

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  Posted by Susanne 9 years, 8 months ago
  
  Still remember as a kid when the local ambulance company's response vehicle (privately owned, as they were in those days), which was an extremely heavy duty station wagon, would double as a morticians call-out vehicle. Still some of those old "dual purpose" station-wagon Ambuhearses around - quite a collectors market. Now more so, as they're put back into Dual-duty service...
  
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Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 8 months ago

I live in a rural area that has had a volunteer fire/EMT service for ever. It works very well, unless it's the middle of a blizzard.

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Posted by Solver 9 years, 8 months ago

Complusionism seems to just get bigger. This will not turn out well.

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