MUCH More Obamacare TRUTH

I don't want to be on SSI and Medicaid but I need them to live with my family helping me and some private charity aid (food bank, free clothes) and hate being considered by the Conservatives as a Moocher. I worked some just the new economy left me behind.

 

Bull (*)(*)(*)(*), First off I don't have a Auto policy I cannot use. The highest deductible Ihave ever paid is 1000 dollars. I currently pay 500 dollar deductible.
here's an interesting article about the positive affects of ACA:
Obamacare Forcing Rural Hospitals to Close
Sunday, 15 Mar 2015 07:39 PM
By Greg Richter

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obamacare-rural-hospitals-close/2015/03/15/id/630246/

oh yeah, real successful......................putting people out of work, closing hospitals equals less medical than before....... means more people on the dole...costing America even more. Why is it you want to see America fail? Is the destruction of the country worth your miserable life?

 

Pathetic.

On the contrary, Obamacare is creating MORE jobs:




http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/20/3625237/medicaid-expansion-job-creation/


http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiam...amacare-a-job-killer-heres-what-they-say-now/





America WINS with Obamacare!



Thanks for continually bringing attention to this incontrovertible TRUTH.

 

Anyone interested should read your link, it speaks volumes to your credibility and the sources you are forced to use to support your position.

 

Obamacare success in South Carolina:



http://www.thestate.com/2015/03/10/4037413_obamacare-insurance-enrollment.html?rh=1



More than 210,000 people in South Carolina selected plans or were reenrolled in the federal health insurance marketplace in the enrollment cycle that ended Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

As of March 2, about 174,000 had paid a first premium or were still in a grace period after paying premiums last year, according to the S.C. Department of Insurance. That’s a more accurate accounting of how many are covered by the insurance set up under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

The new numbers mark a major increase from the 118,000 who signed up in the first cycle. The numbers released Tuesday indicate 58 percent of those who selected plans were new to the healthcare.gov system this cycle.

About 89,000 people who had the insurance at the end of last year either re-enrolled or were automatically re-enrolled. Of those, about 48,000 didn't go online and enroll, and it's unclear how many of those won't pay their first premium and get coverage.

About 88 percent of South Carolinians who signed up are eligible for tax subsidies to help pay their monthly premiums. Also, 34 percent of the applicants were younger than age 35.

 

More Phony ObamaCare Numbers From The White House

http://news.investors.com/IBD-Edito...n-million-uninsured-claim-is-likely-bogus.htm
and more lies from the WH....... and the scat keeps flowing....

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

The source I used which validated Obamacare is The State from South Carolina and is certainly not from the White House.

 

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: 16.4M HAVE GAINED HEALTH INSURANCE




More than 16 million Americans have gained insurance coverage as a result of President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration said Monday as the White House prepares to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the law's signing.

In releasing the latest estimates, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell called it "the largest reduction in the uninsured in four decades."

Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, but it has been politically divisive from the start.

Democrats hailed it as the culmination of decades of effort to guarantee health coverage for all Americans, including people with health problems who until then could have been turned away by insurance companies. Republicans called it government overreach, and haven't stopped trying to repeal or roll back what they dismiss as "Obamacare."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...INSURED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT





Fortune 500 companies get their medical costs subsidized by taxpayers but none of the right wingers call that ''overreach''.

 

How about Healthcare.gov... believe that source?

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Charles Willis

My "new" coverage got me absolutely nothing. ...hi my name is Charles, I wait tables for a living and make roughly $34000 a year, I am "single with no dependants", and the company I work for offers "MEC". I decided to go to the marketplace and buy insurance. The only insurance I could afford cost $250 a month. So it happened....I got sick....no biggie, just a sinus infection, I have insurance for the first time in my life!! I didn't have to pay at the urgent care! Then when I went to pick up 10 days worth of allegra, and 10 days worth of antibiotics, I was shocked when they said $65!!! Low and behold a bill from the urgent care.....they covered NOTHING! Because I had to buy the $250 a month insurance my deductible is $6300!! For those of you who don't know, that means I have to spend $6300 out of pocket, before they cover anything!!!!! How am I supposed to be a responsible American citizen, and have a house, car, health, dental, and life insurance, plus pay the bills and eat!!! This law is VERY irresponsible, and we should not allow it to continue as is! I am all for EVERY ONE having insurance, but this is debilitating to the working class, in case you haven't noticed we are the backbone of America!

Sunday at 5:51pm


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=818206788228558&id=130163127032931

Devoran Prado

How is it ok to be FORCED and then penalized for purchasing a mandated Health Care no one can afford?? This is the first step to a socialistic communism world. No thank you.

(*)Sunday at 2:07pm

 

I really don't understand how anyone can tout this as a success when this happens:

How Can Insured Americans Lack Medical Care?

US News
By Elizabeth Renter
March 17, 2015 10:18 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/insured-americans-lack-medical-care-141818557.html

Why force someone who cannot use the insurance they pay for?
Answer, because that money goes into someone else's pocket for their joy and comfort..... but what do some really care about their fellow Man's personal wel-being. They are only concerned about you and I paying for their mooching. For the most part, they haven't paid one damned dime into their own healthcare, but sure as hell expect to have YOU pay for it.
..and they are scared. It's beginning to look like if they haven't got a plan"B", they gonna get scrooed

 

Libs consider Obamacare a success because the gov't has taken over more of our lives. Mouth breathing lefties will be happy when Uncle Sugar makes 100% of their decisions for them.

Think for a minute how folks must feel who are paying hundreds of dollars a month for insurance, but never go to the doctor. Lucky to be in good health... might as well be flushing that money down the toilet instead of making big insurance companies richer.

 

Personally? I think we are not done examining the stool sample.........................

 

Contrary to the lies of the far right, ACA continues to save money and lives every day:




Republicans have declared over and over again that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) would destroy the economy, cost millions of jobs and cost too much for us to afford both individually and as a country. These are the same pundits and politicians who haven’t met a war they didn’t like – and some of them, like Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), don’t even know that Tehran is the capital city of the very country they want to invade. It’s pretty frightening when you think about it, but then again, this is par for the course for a party that has spent the last 6+ years doing little else other than to oppose nearly everything President Obama has supported. Obamacare has been the number one issue that Republicans have focused on and warned that it was a pathway to communism and economic ruin, but a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services proves them all wrong: A new report from Health and Human Services finds that the uninsured rate has fallen from 20.3 percent prior to the health-care law down to 13.2 percent at the start of 2015. This is a 7.1 percentage-point decrease in the uninsured rate — or, to put it another way, a 35-percent decline in the number of Americans who lack insurance coverage. “Nothing since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid has come close to this kind of change,” says Richard Frank, assistant secretary for evaluation and planning at Health and Human Services. The decline in coverage has coincided with two big Obamacare programs. First, there was the part of the law that required employers to offer dependent coverage up through age 26. Since that program began in 2010, the uninsured rate among young adults (Americans between the ages of 19 and 26) has dropped from 34.1 percent to 26.7 percent. (Source) Republicans have also complained about the cost, and said it was an expense we could not afford as a nation. Bear in mind that these critics (along with many of their Democratic colleagues) approved two wars that were put on the nation’s credit card. Some of them also gladly signed off on these costly wars and are eager for another one with Iran, but thought that bills for the veterans of those wars were too expensive. It turns out that their predictions on the cost of Obamacare are also falling well short of the mark. According to the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, the Affordable Care Act is on pace to cost $142 billion less, or 11% less, over the next decade than what it had forecast just two months ago. This by no means implies that Obamacare is “cheap” — the law is still slated to cost $1.2 trillion to implement over a 10-year period — but taking into account that the initial estimates of Obamacare’s cost from the CBO were $1.76 trillion over 10 years back in 2012, this is a major forecasted cost reduction in just three years. (Source) To date, the cost of wars since 2001 has been over $1.6 trillion and you’ll rarely see a Republican claim that these wars are both ridiculously expensive and unnecessary. They also tend to think that the expense of taking care of our own instead of killing suspected terrorists (along with plenty of innocent civilians) is too great because during the Sermon on the Mount, Republican Jesus says “screw the poor, we need more wars so the rich can get even richer.” Republicans aren’t going to let facts get in the way of attempting further repeals of Obamacare, and they’ll certainly continue to make the same old debunked claims about it because they’ve come too far to turn back now. However, the numbers don’t lie; despite all of the doomsday prophecies from conservatives opposed to the Affordable Care Act, it’s working even better than expected.

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/the-numbers-dont-lie-obamacare-is-working/





every real patriot knows that





Thank you Mr Obama! America thrives because of patriots like you.

 

Don't you mean contrary to the cries of real Americans?

Just because the Daily Kos doesn't tell you how many families are hurting financially because of higher premiums, doesn't mean they don't exist. It just means you're willing to turn a blind eye because you care more about politicians than your fellow citizens.

 

LOL! Just to refresh your memory, it was you right wingers who thought nothing of 45,000 Americans needlessly dying every year from lack of health care coverage thanks to your party. The same one that subsidize the insurance of elite employees who work for Fortune 500 companies.




Oh by the way, America are warming up to Obamacare:



Americans Are Warming Up to Obamacare

Source: Bloomberg

by John Tozzi
8:53 AM EDT March 19, 2015



The fight over Obamacare in Washington is as fierce as ever, with a Republican budget plan that would repeal the health-care law Democrats passed five years ago. In the rest of the country, opposition to the law appears to be easing.

The gap between favorable and unfavorable views of the Affordable Care Act is the narrowest in more than two years, according to a poll released today, March 19, by the Kaiser Family Foundation.



The poll of 1,503 U.S. adults found 43 percent opposed to Obamacare and 41 percent in favor. With a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, the result was essentially an even split. Those in favor most often cited expanded access to insurance, while opponents cited cost.

Negative views of the law increased in the months after October 2013, when the sign-up website healthcare.gov and some state insurance marketplaces were crippled by technology failures. Now the government reports that some 16.4 million Americans have gained insurance coverage under the law.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...re-americans-are-warming-up-to-the-health-law





Yes, even the pro business Bloomberg knows it's true!

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ginning-to-reap-rewards-of-Medicaid-expansion


States beginning to reap rewards of Medicaid expansion



Arkansans and Kentucky are the big winners in Obamacare, having the largest reduction in their uninsured rate in the country. But it's not just reducing the uninsured. These two states will have a combined savings of more than $1 billion over the next seven years, according to a Robert Woods Johnson study, and it's all thanks to Medicaid expansion. That should be a lesson to other states, say the study's authors.
Both states report expansion-related savings and Arkansas reports new revenues. When projected forward, these financial gains are likely to exceed expansion-related costs for years to come. These early savings point to Medicaid expansion paying for itself at least through SFY 202—while generating major gains in coverage and reducing the number of uninsured.
Another new study, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, finds similar—but not quantified—savings for three other representative states, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Washington. Each of those states has results in common, all which add up to revenue increases or savings: "beneficiaries who otherwise would have qualified for pre-ACA Medicaid categories at the state’s regular match instead enrolled in the new expansion group and were eligible for the higher ACA enhanced match rate (and therefore reduced state costs"; "savings in other areas of the state budget beyond Medicaid, such as state-funded behavioral health services and corrections"; and "increased provider and premium taxes" bringing in more revenue.
Meanwhile, states that didn't expand Medicaid are losing hospitals and emergency room services, not to mention people's lives.





Contrary to the lies of the far right, ACA continues to save money and lives every day!

 

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/booming-health-care-industry-credits-obamacare-for-historic-growth/



Booming Health Care Industry Credits Obamacare for Historic Growth




Do you remember when John Boehner said this:

“In my opinion, ObamaCare is the biggest job killer we have in America today.” [Source]

Or how about when 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney said:

“When you have three quarters of American small businesses responding to surveys saying that Obamacare is making it less likely for them to hire people, and when people need good jobs, you know we have to get rid of Obamacare.” [Source]

The list of “job-killing” comments from Republicans about Obamacare is a mile long. They have been saying that President Obama’s healthcare law is going to destroy the economy and kill jobs since before it was passed in 2010.Even more, Republicans in Congress have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars repealing the law over 50 times in the last four years.

Well, in a shocking completely predictable turn of events, Republicans turned out to be one hundred percent WRONG:

More than 90 new health-care companies employing as many as 6,200 people have been created in the U.S. since Obamacare became law, a level of entrepreneurial activity that participants say may be unprecedented for the industry.[Source]

Former Obama adviser and doctor, Bob Kocher who is now a partner in a venture capitalist firm at New York based firm, Venrock Associates, said, “The claim that the Affordable Care Act is a job-killer is just factually untrue… [Obamacare] created the most enormous opportunity to build health-care companies ever.” Kocher’s firm has already invested in eight startup companies that are looking to take advantage of huge opportunities the law offers.

CEO Derek Newell, who runs Jiff, a California-based company that helps corporations organize health benefits for employees and consults corporations on how to improve workers’ health while reducing costs to their companies, says that Obamacare has been an “amazing catalyst for job creation and innovation” for the healthcare industry.

Do you think Republicans are going to apologize and admit they were wrong? Of course not!

Recently, Pres. Obama correctly states that every prediction Republicans have made about him has turned out to be wrong. They said he was going to kill the economy, but instead it is thriving: the stock market has doubled, the deficit has been cut by two-thirds, unemployment is at 5.5 percent. Now, the healthcare reform they so despise is creating thousands of jobs.

While Republicans continue to spread the Armageddom-like doom and fear mongering to their base, the truth is that Obamacare is far from a job killer — in fact, it is a common sense reform that is already spurring economic growth while lowering America’s historically high uninsured rate.

 

"New Study Confirms That Obamacare Is Saving States Money"



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/03/20/3636704/medicaid-expansion-savings-states/




Many of the states that agreed to expand the eligibility requirements for their Medicaid programs under the health law are reaping millions of dollars in savings, according to two new reports that confirm the financial benefits in store for state lawmakers who implement this particular Obamacare provision.
The first study, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examined Kentucky and Arkansas — two states with previously high uninsurance rates that have benefited significantly from Medicaid expansion.
According to the researchers, those states should serve as prime examples of how “expansion can produce savings in tax dollars and generate new revenue for state budgets.” Between state fiscal years 2014 and 2021, Kentucky will save an estimated $820 million and Arkansas will save an estimated $370 million after accepting federal funding to extend health coverage to additional low-income residents.
Those savings come from a combination of the additional federal funding allocated for states that accept the expansion and the decline in uninsured residents seeking uncompensated care, which increases revenue for health providers.
The second study, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, reported similar findings for Connecticut, New Mexico, and Washington State. Although the researchers acknowledge that it’s difficult to isolate the specific effect of Medicaid expansion on state budgets, they conclude that “early evidence from interviews with budget officials in these case study states shows state savings and revenue gains with limited costs resulting from expansion.”
The three states examined in the Kaiser study are also saving money in programs outside of Medicaid itself, particularly when it comes to their behavioral health programs. With additional federal funding to finance Medicaid, states are able to shift money around to allocate more resources to mental health services, which have suffered big cuts in state budgets over the last several years.
Previous studies projected big savings for Medicaid expansion states — but, now that the policy has been in effect for a full year in many states, researchers are able to start confirming that positive benefit more explicitly. Other states, like New Jersey, have also started factoring the savings stemming from Medicaid expansion into their budgets.
There’s been some other recent evidence that Medicaid expansion can also help spur job growth. According to a recent report from the market research group FitchRatings, the states that expanded their public health programs are creating jobs in the health care field at a more rapid rate, suggesting that “ACA expansion is generally positive for that sector’s employment profile.”
Health experts agree that Medicaid expansion has been one of the most successful provisions of the health reform law. States that expanded their programs saw much bigger drops in their uninsurance rates as they extended coverage to low-income people who were previously locked out of affordable insurance. If the entire country had accepted the expansion, the national uninsurance rate would be two percentage points lower, according to an analysis from the New York Times.





ACA = unquestionable success!

 

ACA saves lives and money every day. Every patriotic American wants that.

 

Celebrating five years of lies today.

 

More Obamacare SUCCESS:



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...on-leads-to-increased-diabetes-nbsp-diagnoses



Study: Medicaid expansion leads to increased diabetes diagnoses



One of the nation's costliest and most serious chronic diseases is getting diagnosed and treated better among poor Americans because of Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion included in it, a new study concludes. At least in the states that took the expansion.
The number of new diabetes cases identified among poor Americans has surged in states that have embraced the Affordable Care Act, but not in those that have not, a new study has found, suggesting that the health care law may be helping thousands of people get earlier treatment for one of this country’s costliest medical conditions. […]
In the new study by Quest Diagnostics, a medical testing company, researchers analyzed laboratory test results from all 50 states in the company's large database over two six-month periods. In the states that expanded Medicaid, the number of Medicaid enrollees with newly identified diabetes rose by 23 percent, to 18,020 in the first six months of 2014, from 14,625 in the same period in 2013. The diagnoses rose by only 0.4 percent—to 11,653 from 11,612—in the states that did not expand Medicaid.

In all, the Quest study identified 434,288 people as having diabetes—equal to about a quarter of all new American cases in a year, according to the most recent federal data. […]

The authors of the study, published Monday in the journal Diabetes Care, said it was a natural experiment: About half the states had chosen to expand Medicaid by early 2014 and half had not. The research team used what medical experts agreed was a reasonable proxy for a diabetes diagnosis—the results of a test, called hemoglobin A1c, that reflects long-term glucose in the blood.

The stark difference in the numbers—a 23 percent hike in expansion states, versus 0.4 percent in the others—is convincing enough for most physicians and public health experts to be convinced the expansion has made the difference. That includes Dr. David M. Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, who says this "suggests that states that are accepting this kind of coverage are doing their populations a huge favor." That's because early detection—and effective treatment—of the disease can help prevent some of the worst outcomes of it, including heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure and leg and foot amputations.


That's saving lives, and for the states, money. All real patriots applaud this TRUTH

 

Even Democrats are beginning to see the truth about Obamacare.

 

HHS: Hospitals saved billions under ObamaCare

As predicted.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...illions-under-obamacare#.VRCxeH64hpw.facebook


HHS: Hospitals saved billions under ObamaCare
By Sarah Ferris - 03/23/15 11:09 AM EDT


A massive expansion of insurance programs like Medicaid and a drop in emergency room visits saved hospitals at least $7.4 billion over the last year, the Obama administration announced Monday.

With millions more people covered under ObamaCare last year, hospitals faced fewer bills from patients who lacked insurance and were unable to pay. Hospitals also saw fewer emergency room visits, which rack up far higher costs and often leave hospitals with the tab.

The costs of those services — known as uncompensated care — dropped by one-fifth nationwide in 2014, according to a government report released Monday.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the findings to mark the fifth year since the passage of ObamaCare.





Even tin hat Republican Ted Cruz is now under Obamacare!

 

Baton Rouge emergency room closing shows cost of Obamacare fight


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/03/25/260881/baton-rouge-emergency-room-closing.html



A Baton Rouge, La., hospital is closing the only emergency room on the city's impoverished north side, a real-world ripple effect of the ideological clash over President Barack Obama's health care law.

The shutdown on April 1 serves as an early warning for hospitals in states like Louisiana, where Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal turned down federal money to expand the Medicaid program for the poor. Charity hospitals will lose billions of federal aid beginning late next year, a cut that was supposed to be offset as more residents were covered by Medicaid.

The combination is a looming "double whammy," said Shawn Gremminger, a lobbyist for America's Essential Hospitals in Washington, which represents those that care for the poor.

"It's not survivable," he said. "Hospitals are going to close."

In Louisiana, Baton Rouge General's Mid City hospital was already caught in that vise. It was flooded with the uninsured after a nearby charity hospital was closed. Louisiana provided a one-time injection of funds last year from the federal aid program that's about to be cut. With that money gone, the hospital is closing the emergency room.

"It was unsustainable," said Mark Slyter, the hospital's chief executive officer.

While Republican governors in states including Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey have expanded their Medicaid programs under Obamacare, Jindal, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, has remained steadfast in his opposition.

A health-policy expert who began his political ascent as chief of Louisiana's state hospital system in 1996, Jindal, 43, has said adding to the federal program would put nearly half of Louisiana on government assistance. Jindal instead decided to turn management of the state's charity hospitals over to private operators to improve the efficiency of health care provided to the indigent.

In Baton Rouge, a city of 229,000, about one-fourth of whom live below the poverty line, the emergency room's closing has been met with protests by residents and lawmakers who say Jindal's policies are hurting the poor.

"The governor is putting ideology ahead of the welfare of the state," said state Rep. Alfred Williams, a Democrat from Baton Rouge. "He has an agenda and it's to run for president of the United States. And if that causes the people of Louisiana to suffer, then I believe he's OK with that."

Alexis Nicaud, a spokeswoman for Jindal, referred questions to Kathy Kliebert, the secretary of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals.

Kliebert said Jindal's decision to relinquish management of the state hospitals has helped the poor by giving them access to better-equipped facilities with shorter waits. She said Mid City was undermined by market forces as rival specialty hospitals lured away patients with insurance.

"Mid City has had financial problems for 10 years," she said.

Nationally, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has eased the strain of caring for the uninsured. The law allowed for making Medicaid available to those earning as much as 138 percent of the poverty level, or about $16,200 for an individual. The expense is fully paid by the federal government through 2016 before being phased down to 90 percent.

After the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012 said it was up to states to decide whether to expand the program, the decisions initially broke down along party lines as Republicans questioned whether the federal government would keep its pledge to pay for it.

Ten of 28 states that have since decided to do so were led by Republicans. A new wave of the party's governors in states including Tennessee, Wyoming and Utah tried to follow this year, though they have been stymied by lawmakers.

By January, 11.2 million more people were enrolled in Medicaid and its related program for children than during the three months that ended September 2013, before the provision took hold. In states that boosted the scope of Medicaid, uncompensated care costs dropped by $5 billion in 2014, twice as much as in those that didn't, according to estimates released by the Obama administration.

In Louisiana, Obamacare would have added 242,000 people to the program, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based nonprofit that tracks health care policy.

Nationwide, charity hospitals are set to lose money from a Medicaid fund that partially offsets the cost of treating those who can't pay.

Initially scheduled to kick in last year, Congress delayed the cuts until late 2016. The funding will decline by $35 billion during the following eight years, according to a 2014 analysis by researchers at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Tulane University in New Orleans.

Baton Rouge General's Mid City hospital is a harbinger of the effect those reductions will have in states that didn't expand Medicaid.

Mid City wasn't the area's safety-net hospital. It became one accidentally in 2013, when Jindal closed the nearby Earl K. Long Medical Center, which was part of a network of state teaching hospitals charged with caring for the poor.

When the Long hospital closed, Louisiana directed its patients and federal aid money to Our Lady of the Lake, a Catholic hospital in a wealthier, southern part of East Baton Rouge Parish.

Many of the poor showed up instead at the closer Mid City emergency room, which had to take them under federal law. Jerry Dean Johnson, 64, said Our Lady is at least 13 minutes farther from her home.

"It's too far," said Johnson, a Medicaid patient who has lung disease and has been rushed to Mid City twice in four months. "I think if I had to go way down there I would have died."

Mid City's uninsured patients rose by 400 a month, a 30 percent jump, said Slyter, its CEO. Psychiatric consultations rose almost 70 percent, also a spillover from the shuttered hospital, he said.

The state gave Mid City $23 million in one-time emergency funding in 2014 to keep the doors opened.

Expanded Medicaid would have relieved some of pressure on the emergency room, although it wouldn't have saved an operation that was losing $2 million a month because of the uninsured, Slyter said.

"It would not have been a silver bullet," he said. "But that's one of several things that would have helped."






Note that when Jindal became governor he inherited a large surplus from the state's previous Democrat governor. Louisiana now has a deficit thanks to Republican politics.

 

The city should have funded it enough to stay open.