{"id":4020,"date":"2011-01-04T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:43:23","slug":"obamacare-killing-hospital-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4020","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Killing Hospital Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if they aren&#8217;t the government-approved type of hospitals, that is.&#160; Catering to lobbyists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obamacare-ends-construction-doctor-owned-hospitals_525950.html\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare\u2122 cuts off Medicare funding<\/a> to new or expanded hospitals owned by doctors.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This little-noticed but particularly egregious aspect of Obamacare is, by all accounts, a concession to the powerful American Hospital Association (AHA),<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/reports?id=0323\"> a supporter<\/a> of Obamacare, which prefers to have its member hospitals operate without competition from hospitals owned by doctors.&#160; Dr. Michael Russell, president of Physician Hospitals of America, which has filed suit to try to stop this selective building-ban from going into effect, says, &quot;There are so many regulations [in Obamacare] and they are so onerous and intrusive that we believe that the section [Section 6001] was deliberately designed so no physician owned hospital could successfully comply.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Competition drives <em>down<\/em> costs, but with this and all these insurance mandates, it&#8217;s sure to do precisely the opposite.&#160; That&#8217;s government for ya&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if they aren&#8217;t the government-approved type of hospitals, that is.&#160; Catering to lobbyists, ObamaCare\u2122 cuts off Medicare funding to new or expanded hospitals owned by doctors.&#160; This little-noticed but particularly egregious aspect of Obamacare is, by all accounts, a concession to the powerful American Hospital Association (AHA), a supporter of Obamacare, which prefers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}