[RealJustme]

Besides the sky rocketing costs this is what everyone feared, Doctors being punished if they try and provide good healthcare, their new mission is to process them and not have them returned for follow up treatments, we now have Russian style medical care.

More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules. A provision of ObamaCare is set to punish roughly two-thirds of U.S. hospitals starting this fall over high readmission rates, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News.

Starting in October, the Government will reduce reimbursements to hospitals with 30-day readmission rates -- which refers to patients who return within a month.

Doctors are concerned the penalty is unfair, since sometimes they have to accept patients more than once in a brief period of time but could be penalized for doing so -- even for accepting seniors who are sick. Doctors are being punished if they provide follow up treatments they feel are necessary.

"Hospitals that have higher readmission rates actually have lower mortality rates," said Sunil Kripalani, MD, a professor with Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies hospital readmissions. "So, which would we rather have -- a hospital readmission or a death?"

But according to federal government figures, nearly one in five patients return for more treatment within 30 days of release, costing an estimated $17.5 billion, the hospitals involved in providing the additional treatments will be expected to make up those costs.

Only under the Obama Administration could this happen.

[sillydaddy]

Forget immigration reform, all we have to do is enforce the laws we already have....forget the Latino voting block, created by the media, no such thing exists.....and run a GOP candidate on repealing.....not repairing....repealing Obamacare.The "silent majority" is fed up with this bullshit.

[Grog]

JustFreedManMe and Forbes are cruising in JustFreedManMe's Yugo.

They're going to Hot Topic to get something for Young Brandon, something that shows they're hip.

JustFreedManMe's Yugo stalls in an intersection while Forbes is eye-balling a hunky UPS guy (Forbes is asking about where the UPS guy works out and explaining how he is an attendant at the Mark Foley man club and gives free pre and post-workout massages to card-carrying Republicans).

JustFreedManMe is irritated that Forbes is being so flirtatious and because he just spent $42.50 to have his Yugo tuned up. That was after JustFreedmanMe spent almost $200 at the same garage to have the engine in his Yugo replaced (Young Brandon could have done it for $175, but Leroy kept calling and Forbes was so impatient JusFreedManMe couldn't wait for the strapping Young Brandon to do the job, shirtless, of course).

After the UPS driver drives off from Forbes come-ons, JustFreedManMe calls the garage where he had his Yugo tuned up and the engine replaced and boy is JustFreedmanMe angry! So angry that Forbes becomes so aroused that he decides he has to give JustFreedManMe some reach-around, or next seat relaxment.

Forbes is finishing up relaxing JustFreedMAnMe when the tow truck deposits the three of them (JustFreedManMe, Forbes and the Yugo) at the repair garage.

Flushed and a little wobbly from Forbes' relaxment, JustFreedManMe staggers to the office whilst Forbes refreshes his make-up, wipes the goo from his chin and tries to call Young Brandon again.

In the office JustFreedManMe complains to the manager about his kaput Yugo.

The manager tells JustFreedManMe that he thought they had the Yugo fixed, but it looks like it's going to take more time and parts that will cost another $100.

JustFreedManMe explodes about how he's tired of coming back for repairs that never work.

The manager tells him it's not an exact science and JustFreedManMe needs to pony up another C-note or invite Forbes in to give his mechanics some relaxment.

JustFreedManMe complains that he thinks the manager is just milking him.

The manager smiles and says: "I would never do that! Now, get that Forbes guy in here because I'm really tense."

"Promise you'll fix it this time?" JustFreedManMe implores.

"I promise," the manager grins, unzipping his grease-stained pants.



And the moral of the story... is completely lost on JustFreedManMe, Forbes and the rest of the conservative cadre.

[RealJustme]

The "silent majority" is fed up with this bullshit.

Agree 100%.

[Grog]

And here's what the "Silent Majority" is doing about it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... medium=RSS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

:lol:

[sillydaddy]

I'm guessing the moral of the story is, Grog is now growing hair on his palms.