Member- May 7, 2015
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2024 US Presidential Election
- Thread starter ZFire
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Everyone is going to hate how screwed they are if they have a medical emergency.
Two major impacts are going to hit the healthcare system that will affect everyone when they have a life-threatening illness.
First, many hospitals that rely on Medicaid dollars are likely to close.
The second most nursing homes rely on Medicaid dollars for their long-term residents. They will be closing.
Now the hospitals that survive are going to be hit with a double whammy of an increase in uninsured patients that need to be treated & stabilized before discharge under EMTALA as well as being inundated with all the residents of closed nursing homes which won't be able to be discharged because they now don't have a payer source for a new nursing home. For those who qualify for a disability waiver under what's left of Medicaid, it won't matter because there will not be enough nursing home beds available due to closures. They will sit in the hospital because they are unsafe to be discharged to home & have nowhere else to go.
This delay in discharge will result in beds being taken away from people in the ER. The people in the ER waiting for a bed upstairs will slow the triage of patients in the waiting room. What that means for the general public is longer wait times in the ER, which, when we are talking about a heart attack or stroke, that extra wait time will result in permanent disability or death.
Yep, people are going to hate losing their lives, but it's all part of the plan.
Two major impacts are going to hit the healthcare system that will affect everyone when they have a life-threatening illness.
First, many hospitals that rely on Medicaid dollars are likely to close.
The second most nursing homes rely on Medicaid dollars for their long-term residents. They will be closing.
Now the hospitals that survive are going to be hit with a double whammy of an increase in uninsured patients that need to be treated & stabilized before discharge under EMTALA as well as being inundated with all the residents of closed nursing homes which won't be able to be discharged because they now don't have a payer source for a new nursing home. For those who qualify for a disability waiver under what's left of Medicaid, it won't matter because there will not be enough nursing home beds available due to closures. They will sit in the hospital because they are unsafe to be discharged to home & have nowhere else to go.
This delay in discharge will result in beds being taken away from people in the ER. The people in the ER waiting for a bed upstairs will slow the triage of patients in the waiting room. What that means for the general public is longer wait times in the ER, which, when we are talking about a heart attack or stroke, that extra wait time will result in permanent disability or death.
Yep, people are going to hate losing their lives, but it's all part of the plan.
- May 7, 2015
- 1,132
- Tinnitus Since
- 29.09/2014
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic trauma using headphones
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