Longer wait times in Universal Health care ?
.Comeon ! Dr.Vin Gupta
Treatment even given late is better than no treatment
Here's how former Rep. John Delaney put it during the Democratic debate in June: “If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, ‘How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate?’ Every single hospital administrator said they would close."
"Congressman Delaney is wrong — full stop,"
says Craig Garthwaite, a health care economist at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Garthwaite says it's more likely hospitals will be forced to scale back services, amenities and staff under a Medicare for All system.
"We're going to get a different kind of hospital going forward and we'll have to decide if that's what we want,” he says. “But it's hyperbole to say all hospitals will close.”
But that is the position of hospital executives at Central Maine Healthcare.
Across the country, 113 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, according to University of North Carolina researchers. Population loss in rural areas and increasing technological demands of a modern health care system ( is this reallyn necessary?)
So a few can have great Healthcare but the majority have no healthcare.
have made it difficult for these hospitals to maintain the revenues they need to operate.
But predictions of further demise under a single-payer system may be overblown, according to research from the Congressional Budget Office.
Universal health care would likely boost revenue at rural hospitals "because they take care of so many Medicaid and Medicare and uninsured patients today," CBO's Jessica Banthin told lawmakers at a congressional hearing in May.
"They treat a greater share of uninsured patients than some more urban and suburban hospitals do,” she said. “They could actually get more revenue under a single-payer if Medicare payment rates were provided for every patient."
.Comeon ! Dr.Vin Gupta
Treatment even given late is better than no treatment
Here's how former Rep. John Delaney put it during the Democratic debate in June: “If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, ‘How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate?’ Every single hospital administrator said they would close."
"Congressman Delaney is wrong — full stop,"
says Craig Garthwaite, a health care economist at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Garthwaite says it's more likely hospitals will be forced to scale back services, amenities and staff under a Medicare for All system.
"We're going to get a different kind of hospital going forward and we'll have to decide if that's what we want,” he says. “But it's hyperbole to say all hospitals will close.”
But that is the position of hospital executives at Central Maine Healthcare.
Across the country, 113 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, according to University of North Carolina researchers. Population loss in rural areas and increasing technological demands of a modern health care system ( is this reallyn necessary?)
So a few can have great Healthcare but the majority have no healthcare.
have made it difficult for these hospitals to maintain the revenues they need to operate.
But predictions of further demise under a single-payer system may be overblown, according to research from the Congressional Budget Office.
Universal health care would likely boost revenue at rural hospitals "because they take care of so many Medicaid and Medicare and uninsured patients today," CBO's Jessica Banthin told lawmakers at a congressional hearing in May.
"They treat a greater share of uninsured patients than some more urban and suburban hospitals do,” she said. “They could actually get more revenue under a single-payer if Medicare payment rates were provided for every patient."
