Trump White House/Cabinet appointments

Page 7 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
vi edit

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
126
As someone who works in healthcare...our Administration has met about what's coming down the pike with the change in Presidency. And it's not good. Basically all projects are getting shut down, all capital requests are getting denied and all positions are put on hiring freeze. As they dismantle Obamacare and other subsidized insurance coverages those 20-40 million people that were covered are no longer. Visits will be down as a whole reducing income and services. And more people will start showing up at the ED for non-emergent needs that can't be turned away and the hospital will never be able to collect for that since there is no longer any payer to bill. We're basically going into fiscal lockdown and waiting for the chaos to begin.
 
B

Balt

Lifer
Mar 12, 2000
12,673
482
126
vi edit said:
As someone who works in healthcare...our Administration has met about what's coming down the pike with the change in Presidency. And it's not good. Basically all projects are getting shut down, all capital requests are getting denied and all positions are put on hiring freeze. As they dismantle Obamacare and other subsidized insurance coverages those 20-40 million people that were covered are no longer. Visits will be down as a whole reducing income and services. And more people will start showing up at the ED for non-emergent needs that can't be turned away and the hospital will never be able to collect for that since there is no longer any payer to bill. We're basically going into fiscal lockdown and waiting for the chaos to begin.
Click to expand...

Is that in response only to the likely repeal of Obamacare, or are they also thinking Paul Ryan's medicare voucher program may happen? Genuinely curious.
 
ivwshane

ivwshane

Lifer
May 15, 2000
33,731
17,379
136
Balt said:
Is that in response only to the likely repeal of Obamacare, or are they also thinking Paul Ryan's medicare voucher program may happen? Genuinely curious.
Click to expand...

Its in response to the uncertainty a trump presidency brings. The markets and businesses typically don't like uncertainty and will play conservative with their assets and fiscal planning.
 
vi edit

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
126
Balt said:
Is that in response only to the likely repeal of Obamacare, or are they also thinking Paul Ryan's medicare voucher program may happen? Genuinely curious.
Click to expand...

More the Obamacare component and the killing of marketplaces. Bevin (Governor) is already in process of killing it, Trump and administration will put the death blow on it. We saw a huge surge in coverage when the marketplaces were opened up and it was very good for hospital reimbursement. As it is shut down and those people lose access to insurance they'll wait till they are on deaths door and show up at the ED or (just show up for the smallest thing) and walk away paying nothing.
 
Doc Savage Fan

Doc Savage Fan

Lifer
Nov 30, 2006
15,456
389
121
vi edit said:
As someone who works in healthcare...our Administration has met about what's coming down the pike with the change in Presidency. And it's not good. Basically all projects are getting shut down, all capital requests are getting denied and all positions are put on hiring freeze. As they dismantle Obamacare and other subsidized insurance coverages those 20-40 million people that were covered are no longer. Visits will be down as a whole reducing income and services. And more people will start showing up at the ED for non-emergent needs that can't be turned away and the hospital will never be able to collect for that since there is no longer any payer to bill. We're basically going into fiscal lockdown and waiting for the chaos to begin.
Click to expand...
As if ACA solved the ED problem...it exasperated it ffs. Get real.

http://www.cepamerica.com/news-reso.../appropriate-emergency-department-utilization
 
Last edited:
J

Jhhnn

IN MEMORIAM
Nov 11, 1999
62,365
14,686
136
Balt said:
Is that in response only to the likely repeal of Obamacare, or are they also thinking Paul Ryan's medicare voucher program may happen? Genuinely curious.
Click to expand...

Get ready for a very rough ride if Repubs do away with the filibuster.
 
F

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
88,238
55,791
136
Doc Savage Fan said:
As if ACA solved the ED problem...it exasperated it ffs Get real.
Click to expand...

No it didn't. You are confusing emergency room USE with what he was referring to, which was emergency room uncompensated care. The ACA did a TON to help that.

Gotta read the posts more closely, brotha.
 
vi edit

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
126
Doc Savage Fan said:
As if ACA solved the ED problem...it exasperated it ffs. Get real.
Click to expand...

Almost half a million state residents were covered under insurance plans with it. Those plans actually reimbursed for service. Once they are no longer covered it goes to collections where you are lucky to get pennies on the dollar.
 
Thump553

Thump553

Lifer
Jun 2, 2000
12,839
2,625
136
I'm eighteen months from being eligible for Medicare and have worked since roughly age 13 and paid payroll taxes all along. I'm somewhat resigned to losing health insurance with the repeal of Obamacare but the probable gutting of medicare really inflames me. "Privatizing" medicare means increased expense (to support private profit and a bloated duplicitive bureaucracy, one public one private ) and less dollars for actual medical costs.

Privatizing medicare is a pet project of Ryan and Price. This is not a trial balloon.

I have yet to see how any of this bears the slightest relation to the stated goal of making America great again-seems to me like the middle class is going to be hollowed out and dumped at an accelerating rate.
 
imported_tajmahal

imported_tajmahal

Lifer
Jul 9, 2009
10,759
2,086
136
senseamp said:
Was she a good labor secretary? Any great improvements for workers under GWB?
Click to expand...
She was awesome and government union employees raked in the lucre under her direction. She's also the wife of the Majority Leader in the Senate which makes for a robust Trump administration.
 
vi edit

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
126
imported_tajmahal said:
She was awesome and government union employees raked in the lucre under her direction. She's also the wife of the Majority Leader in the Senate which makes for a robust Trump administration.
Click to expand...

By this math, 1 + 2 = Potato.
 
vi edit

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
126
You had me at years of experience. Lost me at government employees making bank under her and her marriage to McConnell making for a "robust Trump administration".
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom