Inside Track
ObamaCare Shuttering Hospitals and Free Clinics
Across the nation, ObamaCare is causing hospitals to close or to downsize, free clinics to shut down, and healthcare — when it can be obtained at all — to be delivered slowly or even rationed.
These were all predictable results of making government the dominant provider of health insurance, which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) does by subsidizing private insurance and vastly expanding Medicaid eligibility.
The expansion of Medicaid — the primary means of widening coverage under the ACA — is the main cause of these woes. The federal government simply doesn’t reimburse providers enough to make treating Medicaid patients worthwhile. Medicare, too, underpays providers, and its rolls are growing by the day as the Baby Boomers reach age 65.
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