[Irishmen]

The Villages Regional Hospital and the Leesburg Hospital.Blaming it on the sequester and cuts in Medicare and mostly due to Affordable Care Act. Sounds like a fun place to work and to attract amd retain top talent. They state their customers are mainly Seniors and Medicaid so they will suffer the most. Taking away vacation time, freezing pay raises and etc.....just FYI

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by Irishmen

The Villages Regional Hospital and the Leesburg Hospital.Blaming it on the sequester and cuts in Medicare and mostly due to Affordable Care Act. Sounds like a fun place to work and to attract amd retain top talent. They state their customers are mainly Seniors and Medicaid so they will suffer the most. Taking away vacation time, freezing pay raises and etc.....just FYI

The best description I heard of all this is "reform":

Burning down the house to fix the living room.

[Geewiz]

Not meaning to get into politics...but, until the Affordable Care Act fully kicks in, when you go to the Emergency room, you are paying for you and 1 or 2 others who came in without insurance. BTW - the French love their single payer system and the care is good. I've got great insurance....but, I was a lucky guy and still pay a lot..with my former employer picking up the majority.

[zcaveman]

Originally Posted by Irishmen

The Villages Regional Hospital and the Leesburg Hospital.Blaming it on the sequester and cuts in Medicare and mostly due to Affordable Care Act. Sounds like a fun place to work and to attract amd retain top talent. They state their customers are mainly Seniors and Medicaid so they will suffer the most. Taking away vacation time, freezing pay raises and etc.....just FYI

Where did this info come from?

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by Geewiz

Not meaning to get into politics...but, until the Affordable Care Act fully kicks in, when you go to the Emergency room, you are paying for you and 1 or 2 others who came in without insurance. BTW - the French love their single payer system and the care is good. I've got great insurance....but, I was a lucky guy and still pay a lot..with my former employer picking up the majority.

The issue is not the single-payer concept so much as it is the screwed-up mess our nation has, and is re-forming, to pay for it.

[Geewiz]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

The issue is not the single-payer concept so much as it is the screwed-up mess our nation has, and is re-forming, to pay for it.

We always pay for it. The Affordable Care Act is a complicated mess designed to get us to a single payer plan - which most advanced nations have. The idea that employers supply insurance is passe. It reduces their competitiveness and encourages them to move jobs overseas.

Health care is cheaper outside the emergency room than in it. Now, folks with no insurance use the emergency room....and we all pay.

There are existing models where folks with assets can purchase addition insurance that give them more options than what a single payer offers. No one has to lose. Right now, we pay for the uninsured every time we go into the hospital....probably the time we can afford it the least.

[Irishmen]

Originally Posted by zcaveman

Where did this info come from?

Well according to the other thread it came from a letter to the employees.

[Quixote]

Originally Posted by Geewiz

We always pay for it. The Affordable Care Act is a complicated mess designed to get us to a single payer plan - which most advanced nations have. The idea that employers supply insurance is passe. It reduces their competitiveness and encourages them to move jobs overseas....

There are existing models where folks with assets can purchase addition insurance that give them more options than what a single payer offers. No one has to lose. Right now, we pay for the uninsured every time we go into the hospital....probably the time we can afford it the least.

We all know that "we always pay for it," so why the surprise? But the likelihood of our Affordable Care Act morphing into a single payer system is, IMHO, a nice dream--but definitely a dream. Does anyone really think that the powerful insurance industry is going to quietly go off into the night? Does anyone really think that a hodge-podge of insurance companies running our health care system is better medically and more efficient cost-wise than a single-payer system?

I know many Canadians in TV and elsewhere who accept the principle of triage and recognize the value of their single-payer system. Often, they say that they could afford to buy the additional coverage but they do not feel the need to, and this after raising families with no problems. Is their health care "free"? Of course not! But everyone has access to it, as is the case of every other developed nation, and what respect this shows for their citizenry, across the economic board, so to speak!...

[rn1tv]

Irishman, I cannot find the thread regarding the letter sent to the employees. Which thread? Thanks!

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by rn1tv

Irishman, I cannot find the thread regarding the letter sent to the employees. Which thread? Thanks!

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