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An invitation from Pax Beale,
Author, U.S. Patent Holder, Bodybuilding champ, Ex-Heart Cripple…
Have I stimulated your thoughts? How?
Or…Does my position disturb the hell out of you? Why?
Some thoughts on non-profits
We already have government healthcare for the poor, and the elderly through Medicaid and Medicare… and it’s putting the hospitals with the greatest number of older and ultra-low income patients out of business, because the government only reimburses cost. Automatically, this means private insurance and Blue Cross patients must be overcharged, in order for the hospitals to survive. (Note: Blue Cross is now known as Anthem.)
America had better wake up, because private insurance and Blue Cross patients are overcharged, paying for the elderly and low income Medicare and Medicaid patients.
I owned two acute hospitals, and filed for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement from the government for a third of a century. Bottom line is that a hospital without a substantial number of private insurance and Blue Cross patients must short-change quality of care, or go bankrupt, because of the burden of reimbursement at cost for Medicare and Medicaid hospital patients. You must make a profit to survive, and the government is not letting hospitals do that. It is unfair to compensate for this by overcharging the private insurance and Blue Cross patients.
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