F6, 100% .. toward 1.5%, or thereabout, universal levy .. simple, and the rest .. 100% .. UNTIE the link between healthcare insurance and jobs .. your excerpt link reference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The study found that some hospitals did not provide financial aid applications at all, and that many made impermissible demands for irrelevant documents or failed to supply key information, like eligibility rules for big discounts required by state law in 2007. Data reported to the state was obviously faulty, it found.
Yet even hospitals that reported they had spent nothing on financial aid, or had filed hundreds of liens against patients’ homes, were allowed to collect without questions from the charity care pool, which distributes more than $1 billion a year.
Hospitals are not legally barred from seeking judgments or liens, but must first offer an aid application, help the patient complete it, and wait while it is pending. Instead, many hospitals turn to collection agencies, and sue when that fails. The unpaid bills — typically reflecting much higher rates than what insurers pay — are then treated as the equivalent of charity care.
Change is now urgent, health care experts agree [ http://www.cphsnyc.org/cphs/what/charitycare/ ], because the state pool stands to lose hundreds of millions of federal dollars in 2014, when provisions of the health care overhaul will no longer treat so-called bad debt, based on uncollected bills, as if it were charity care.
thanks .. i'd read it before but the "charity care" scam hadn't stuck ..
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hopefully, you will see plenty like this in the future .. lol ..
Opposition caught crying wolf over Medicare levy surcharge changes
Date: Tue, 05/07/2011
Spokesperson: The Hon Nicola Roxon MP - Minister for Health and Ageing
Liberals cry wolf:
“…it's unbelievable that a Health Minister could believe that they could put forward a bill which would drive up the premiums on private health insurance, drive up to a million people out of private health insurance, onto the public hospital queues…”
Peter Dutton, 25 September 2008
KPMG report:
“…it is concluded that changes to the Surcharge did not [public hospital] affect activity trends.”
KPMG Report, 5 July 2011
A new independent report released today has demonstrated the Government’s 2008 Medicare Levy Surcharge changes did not result in any impact on Australia’s public hospital system, making a mockery of the Opposition’s claims that a million Australians would desert private health insurance and flood the public sector.
* arizona, rotflmao, they would freak in Australia .. YIKES! .. universal healthcare with private healthcare insurance booming .. sure complaints and problems, but no political party would even hint at tearing it down .. i've said before it took years of conservative opposition with yelps of .. SOCIALISM!! .. too. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=57125997
* Australia's Reciprocal Health Care Agreements with these countries cover any medically necessary treatment you require which may arise while in that country.
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