Obamacare Blocks Expansion Of Existing Hospitals

Socialist Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats promised increased access and efficiency in health care will prevent doctor-owned hospitals from adding more rooms and more beds.  Physician-owned hospitals are known to be less bureaucratic and more focused on doctor-patient decision making.

Obamacare socialized health care rules single out such hospitals, making new physician-owned projects ineligible to receive payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Existing doctor-owned hospitals will be grandfathered in to get government funds for patients but must seek permission from the Department of Health and Human Services to expand.

To get permission from Department of Health and Human Services, a doctor-owned hospital must be in a county where population growth is 150 percent of the population growth of the state in the last five years; inpatient admissions must be equal to all hospitals located in the county; the bed-occupancy rate must not be greater than the state average, and the hospital must be located in a state where hospital bed capacity is less than the national average. 

 The rules fall under Title VI, Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The provision is titled “Physician Ownership and Other Transparency – Limitations on Medicare Exceptions to the Prohibition on Certain Physician Referral for Hospitals.”

“That’s a lot of access to communities that will be denied,” said Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America (PHA).  “The existing hospitals are greatly affected. They can’t grow. They can’t add beds. They can’t add rooms. Basically, it stifles their ability to change and meet market needs. This is really an unfortunate thing as well, because we are talking about some of the best hospitals in the country.”

The organization says physician-owned hospitals have higher patient satisfaction, greater control over medical decisions for patients and doctor, better quality care and lower costs. Further, physician-owned hospitals have an average 4-1 patient-to-nurse ratio, compared to the national average of 8-1 for general hospitals.

Obama and the Democrats say they are expanding health care with Obamacare.  They are preventing some of the best hospitals in America from expanding or from being built.  Does this sound like improved health care?

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