Affordable Care Act And Snowbirds
I stumbled across this on Yahoo this morning and thought I would share. The multistate dweller aspect never crossed my mind until I read this. Details yet to come. Please don't let this become a...
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MTPockets1 wrote:
Take out profit? No one would provide service. No incentive. Research stops. No reward. There has to be profit to draw more providers, not less. Fewer providers, fewer people can get service. Who will work for no pay? Hospitals stop being built. Collapse is next. Private, profitable business is necessary for a strong system. Jobs, growth, prosperity for anyone willing to work for it.
Why does a hospital have to show a profit? There are loads of non-profit hospitals. City owned, religious, etc. Most basic medical research is paid for by taxpayers through the NIH. What pharma does for research is very small and usually revolves around things like what caking material to use, which coloring/flavoring agent, etc. No one is saying that providers shouldn't get paid for their labor.
Barb
