Florida Health Care Unification Plan
The link above is today's example that looks like it came out of AS: Now Non-Fiction.
I knew that I despised Governor (RINO) Rick Scott (and have not voted for him). This guy makes Jeb Bush actually look half decent.
If there were ever going to be a governor who shared Gulch values east of the Mississippi, this last election could have been it. Current governor (RINO) Rick Scott is just as shady as prior governor (formerly RINO turned independent turned democrat) Charlie Crist said he was. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie had pretty solid organization here in Florida, was polling around 9%, and then only got 3% in the gubernatorial election last November. If there ever were a time to shrug, this is it.
The irony is that this request to "share profits" comes as a result of the end of Medicare/Obamacare subsidies to hospitals to cover the moochers that such hospitals are legally obligated to take care of. My wife has been calling it Communist nursing for a few months now. She says she is ready to quit, but she doesn't.
I knew that I despised Governor (RINO) Rick Scott (and have not voted for him). This guy makes Jeb Bush actually look half decent.
If there were ever going to be a governor who shared Gulch values east of the Mississippi, this last election could have been it. Current governor (RINO) Rick Scott is just as shady as prior governor (formerly RINO turned independent turned democrat) Charlie Crist said he was. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie had pretty solid organization here in Florida, was polling around 9%, and then only got 3% in the gubernatorial election last November. If there ever were a time to shrug, this is it.
The irony is that this request to "share profits" comes as a result of the end of Medicare/Obamacare subsidies to hospitals to cover the moochers that such hospitals are legally obligated to take care of. My wife has been calling it Communist nursing for a few months now. She says she is ready to quit, but she doesn't.
The problem that we face in the rush to expand Medicaid is that Medicaid is a healthcare system destroying program. It doesn't pay as much as it costs to treat the patients.
So, in order to stay in business, any hospital which takes Medicaid has to take a bunch of private insurance patients who pay more than cost to make up the difference. Medicare is fairly close to break even.
This mechanism essentially taxes the people who have insurance to pay for the people on Medicaid (or with no insurance). Under expanded Medicaid we were going to move the people with no insurance onto Medicaid which wouldn't have made such a big change, but the central planners decided to force private insurance to cover more bouncing a lot of people off of private insurance into the expanded Medicaid.
So, now lots of places with high Medicaid use are going broke. The idea, here, is to make the hospitals which have lots of private insurance share the private insurance with the ones who don't.