According to the executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, more than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will now be canceled. Why? Well, it is because of the new health care law that Barack Obama and the Democrats wanted so badly. Apparently the new law singles out physician-owned hospitals, making new physician-owned projects ineligible to receive payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Without those payments, new doctor-owned hospitals just simply would not be feasible. Doctor-owned hospitals that currently exist will be “grandfathered” in under the new law, but must seek permission from the Department of Health and Human Services to expand.
As a result, according to Molly Sandvig, the executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, more than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will now be canceled.
Isn’t that wonderful?
“That’s a lot of access to communities that will be denied,” Sandvig told CNSNews.com, the news source the originally broke the story. “The existing hospitals are greatly affected. They can’t grow. They can’t add beds. They can’t (Read more....)
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