Health Blog : Safety Net Frays as Hospitals Shift Resources From Poor:
"An increase in the number of uninsured patients and competition from well-heeled hospitals is putting pressure on safety net hospitals to reduce services for the poor, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change published online today in the journal Health Affairs. [cmhmd:requires subscription]
The analysis, taken from the Center’s ongoing survey of 12 metropolitan areas, comes as nonprofit hospitals are under increasing scrutiny for the amount of free care they provide for the poor. Some critics charge nonprofit hospitals enjoy billions of dollars in tax exemptions without providing offsetting amounts of charity care."
And yet, if you ask the typical advocate for the status quo, we have no access problems, no rationing of healthcare here in the US.
Go to the WSJ blog for the rest, it covers things nicely.
Sphere: Related Content
2 comments:
The HELL there isn't healthcare rationing in the U.S. I am a victim of it, I know a few people in my area who also have been rationed out. It should come as no surprise to you that all of us have chronic debillitating illnesses that will not be resolved due to the harshest of realities...we are poor,a crime, we are too expensive so we have been labled by crooked medical professionals So we wait in pain ,ill and poor, to die. gluck7104
I'm sorry to hear that, but not surprised, of course.
To get more enraged, click on "rationing" or "waiting times" or "anecdote-off" ...
Cheers,
Post a Comment