A number of acute-care hospitals closed across the United States last year -- 18 to be exact -- and experts who see a raft of new regulatory...
A number of acute-care hospitals closed across the United States last year -- 18 to be exact -- and experts who see a raft of new regulatory processes being heaped upon the healthcare industry in the coming years, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, believe that a wave of additional closures are ahead.
As noted by WorldNetDaily, a dozen more hospitals have closed in the U.S. so far this year in rural areas alone; more are getting ready to be shuttered. But Dr. Lee Hieb, M.D., says this is just the beginning.
"Events happening now give us some idea of what medicine will be reduced to in the future," she wrote in her upcoming book, Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare, which is being published by WND Books.
"Today, all over America, small and midsize hospitals as well as hospitals in inner-city, poor areas are closing," Hieb, an orthopedic surgeon and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, wrote.
The cascade of closures has begun
Critics of the president's signature health "reform" law have long complained that it would fundamentally change American healthcare delivery -- from insurance to the doctor's office and everything in between. Hieb, in her book, suggests that the number of hospitals around the country will be dramatically reduced either because they cannot afford the implementation costs of all of Obamacare's 2,400-plus pages of regulations or because the law's higher out-of-pocket expenses for the insured will lead them to seek less care.
As WND notes:
She said the reasons for the closures aren't complicated. Most of the victims are smaller hospitals or those in poor areas, which often serve the greatest number of Medicare and Medicaid patients.
As noted by WorldNetDaily, a dozen more hospitals have closed in the U.S. so far this year in rural areas alone; more are getting ready to be shuttered. But Dr. Lee Hieb, M.D., says this is just the beginning.
"Events happening now give us some idea of what medicine will be reduced to in the future," she wrote in her upcoming book, Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare, which is being published by WND Books.
"Today, all over America, small and midsize hospitals as well as hospitals in inner-city, poor areas are closing," Hieb, an orthopedic surgeon and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, wrote.
The cascade of closures has begun
Critics of the president's signature health "reform" law have long complained that it would fundamentally change American healthcare delivery -- from insurance to the doctor's office and everything in between. Hieb, in her book, suggests that the number of hospitals around the country will be dramatically reduced either because they cannot afford the implementation costs of all of Obamacare's 2,400-plus pages of regulations or because the law's higher out-of-pocket expenses for the insured will lead them to seek less care.
As WND notes:
She said the reasons for the closures aren't complicated. Most of the victims are smaller hospitals or those in poor areas, which often serve the greatest number of Medicare and Medicaid patients.
