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...some settlements from Medicare and Medicaid and private insurers,” Berger said. “We don’t think that this will be a problem for next fiscal year, as we know what is sustainable and what is not sustainable...
...points out that hospitals spent $22.3 billion on uncompensated care last year and billions more in "community benefits." The trial lawyers, the AHA insists, are diverting focus from the real crisis: a record 45 million Americans without insurance, ERs clogged with indigent patients and costs rising faster than Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements...
...look behind the rhetoric: in general, Kerry's plan relies on existing government programs like Medicaid along with new tax breaks for employers, while Bush would expand new health savings accounts (HSAs) that give more control (and responsibility) to individuals...
...Truth would exist would be to divert attention from that question. The Ribbies would also turn Nieves' refusal to return to work without a health plan into a "character" issue--and thus evade the essential ridiculousness of a health-insurance system that would usually provide Nieves care (through Medicaid) if she were on welfare but doesn't if she is working a full-time job for an employer without a health plan...
HEALTH CARE Kerry wants to import cheap drugs from Canada, which would hurt stocks like Pfizer, Merck and Eli Lilly. Bush opposes such imports. But hospital firms may do better with Kerry, who wants to expand Medicaid and give more patients the means to pay their bills. "Companies like HCA have been hindered by bad-debt expense," says Wendell Perkins of Johnson Family funds. "We like HCA anyway, but a Kerry win would make it more attractive...