Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
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Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
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Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#2This is going to precipitate one of two things:
If hospitals get federal money for anything they will be required to accept insurance offered on the exchange that meet some minimum qualification. At least the two that were blessed as the national options.
Or insurance companies will be required to put an offering on the exchange...likely both.
Like the states refusing to expand Medicaid and set up their exchanges, the hospitals are hastening the transition to a single payer healthcare system by refusing to play ball.
Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#3A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies
That sounds like a totally sane statutory requirement. Why don't more states have it? Collusion between hospital chains and insurers is the crux of the health care cost problem in the US.
Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#4A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies That sounds like a totally sane statutory requirement. Why don't more states have it? Collusion between hospital chains and insurers is the crux of the health care cost problem in the US.
If they are required to do business with one another how do they negotiate a price?
Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#5A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies That sounds like a totally sane statutory requirement. Why don't more states have it? Collusion between hospital chains and insurers is the crux of the health care cost problem in the US.
If they are required to do business with one another how do they negotiate a price?
How does it work in Maryland, where this is already the law?
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#6Note this is "authored" by watchdog.org which is a media outlet for the ultra conservative Koch brothers.
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#7Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#8A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies That sounds like a totally sane statutory requirement. Why don't more states have it? Collusion between hospital chains and insurers is the crux of the health care cost problem in the US.
If they are required to do business with one another how do they negotiate a price?
You set the price based on what is reasonable and customary.
Like Medicare.
Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#9Note this is "authored" by watchdog.org which is a media outlet for the ultra conservative Koch brothers.
I'm sort of confused by how authorship works in the US News & World Report generally, and clicking around a bit on the site doesn't clarify it. Do they have professional staff reporters? Is it just reblogging stuff from elsewhere? Are they buying freelance pieces? Is it like Forbes where there's a "Forbes proper" and an "anybody can blog on Forbes.com here" section (and if so, how do I tell which is which)? I can't really sort out what the intended semantics are for an article published on usnews.com but with a byline of another website.
Seems confusing, but in any case, letting outside lobbying groups run news articles in their pages, not marked as either contributed op-eds or paid messages, is a bit weird.
Re: Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
#10A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies That sounds like a totally sane statutory requirement. Why don't more states have it? Collusion between hospital chains and insurers is the crux of the health care cost problem in the US.
Johns Hopkins is a "chain" hospital?