Cleveland Clinic to Cut $330 Million

The Cleveland Clinic, the region's largest employer, is in the process of cutting $330 million from its budget for next year — a move that could result in an unspecified number of employee layoffs and thousands of early retirements.

The Clinic isn't alone in its quest to limit the size of its operations, as hospitals across the country have axed thousands of employees in the face of reimbursement cuts, declining patient volumes and the looming uncertainty of the federal health care overhaul. Summa Health System and Akron General Health System reported layoffs in recent months. In late 2011, MetroHealth laid off 104 and eliminated 151 vacant positions.

The perfect storm is just starting to form and there is less and less incentives for new doctors to enter a field that is already stretched thin.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article ... /309199994

More unintended consequences of passing a bill that no one got to read and that Obama won't let it be modified. He is allowed to change when parts are implemented but no one else is allowed to vote on modifying it.

Rick wrote:

The Cleveland Clinic, the region's largest employer, is in the process of cutting $330 million from its budget for next year — a move that could result in an unspecified number of employee layoffs and thousands of early retirements.

The Clinic isn't alone in its quest to limit the size of its operations, as hospitals across the country have axed thousands of employees in the face of reimbursement cuts, declining patient volumes and the looming uncertainty of the federal health care overhaul. Summa Health System and Akron General Health System reported layoffs in recent months. In late 2011, MetroHealth laid off 104 and eliminated 151 vacant positions.

The perfect storm is just starting to form and there is less and less incentives for new doctors to enter a field that is already stretched thin.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article ... /309199994

With all this excess "baggage" eliminated from payrolls there certainly should be a cost reduction in providing medical care.

That's the purpose of the ACA. Making it impossible to run a health care organization or even a small clinic.

The results... the government will have to supply that health care.

If you actually read the WHOLE health care bill, you will see that the bill already has the mechanisms in place to set up to develop community clinics, hire health care professionals and basically set up a government run and operated health care system.

Single payer (the Federal government) has always been the real reason for the ACA... and you are beginning to see how this will shake out.

Agreed Walter, single payer is the goal but it could only be accomplished through lies and deception. Nobody with a brain could really believe that this POS law could work in the long run.

FredHayek wrote: More unintended consequences of passing a bill that no one got to read and that Obama won't let it be modified. He is allowed to change when parts are implemented but no one else is allowed to vote on modifying it.

Do all the waivers come with expiration dates?

Blazer Bob wrote:

FredHayek wrote: More unintended consequences of passing a bill that no one got to read and that Obama won't let it be modified. He is allowed to change when parts are implemented but no one else is allowed to vote on modifying it.

Do all the waivers come with expiration dates?

Yes... it's called "single payer." At this point I would rather have a single payer, government run health care system then the fustercluck that the ACA is going to create.

(Like I said above... that's the whole point of the ACA... it's sort of a cyclic observation)

Perhaps if the House had spent its time on improving the ACA with positive changes to elements of the bill instead of 40 votes on eliminating it entirely we would now have a better bill. But no, they are all about destruction, not construction. The party of NO has brought us to this point and they really have no way out of the mess they themselves created with their refusal to compromise and their blind obedience to an ideology that puts their party policy above their obligation to this country and its people.

Possibly the best bet for the Republicans would be to show they are against it, and they have proved that too many times so when ACA starts screwing up in 2014, and 2016, they can bring forward a rescue plan and take back the Presidency and the Senate.

Too bad I think it it will be like typical goverment and once implemented, it can never die.

"Blame Game: Everybody who dislikes ObamaCare is being duped by GOP propaganda, says President Obama. That must include all those unions calling it a disaster, and all those who've lost jobs and pay because of the law.
Telemundo, the only news outlet that appears willing to ask Obama a tough question, pressed him this week about polls showing most Americans oppose ObamaCare. "Is everybody wrong?" the host asked.
"Yes, they are," Obama responded. The problem, he said, isn't his law. It's those evil Republicans who've spent "billions of dollars ... misinforming people."...


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