Hospital to Stop Baby Deliveries Due to Obamacare

[Forever_frost]

A southwestern Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can’t afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.

The Windber Medical Center, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is losing two obstetricians and two others are shifting their focus more to gynecology.

Hospital officials say the population of women of child-bearing age is dropping and that the number of births the hospital would be called upon to perform isn’t enough for it to provide the service in the face of lower reimbursements under the federal Affordable Care Act.

The hospital delivered about 200 babies each year since restarting its obstetrics program in 2005.

Officials aren’t sure how many jobs will be lost.

(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/hospital-to-stop-baby-deliveries-due-to-obamacare.html

[BlackGT]

I've said all along that if/when the "affordable care act" went through that a lot of Dr.'s would either retire or change professions/specialty... And so it begins

[Captain Crawfish]

cant blame them. obammy isnt helping anybody

[mstng86]

AThe hospital delivered about 200 babies each year since restarting its obstetrics program in 2005.

So i guess we should ignore this little nugget in the story. So why did they stop the program the first time?

[DallasSleeper]

I honestly can't wait to see how screwed up things get in the next 12-24 months... It is fun to watch the Liberals whine about their messiah

[stevo]

If Parkland did this, it would do more to cut illegal immigration than everything the 0bama regime has done so far combined.

Stevo

[LS WHAT ??]

What the fuck does delivering babies have to do with illegal immigration? If you didn't know more illegals left our country than came in in the last 2 years. Our country is going down hill and the illegals don't want to be here anymore.

[Shorty]

What the fuck does delivering babies have to do with illegal immigration? If you didn't know more illegals left our country than came in in the last 2 years. Our country is going down hill and the illegals don't want to be here anymore.

You know the ship is sinking when the rats are jumping overboard.

[Vertnut]

What the fuck does delivering babies have to do with illegal immigration? If you didn't know more illegals left our country than came in in the last 2 years. Our country is going down hill and the illegals don't want to be here anymore.

How ever many left, ain't enough. Parkland delivered almost 8200 "anchor babies" in 2011. That's just ONE hospital in Texas. WE (if you pay taxes) pay for all those deliveries.

[line-em-up]

What the fuck does delivering babies have to do with illegal immigration? If you didn't know more illegals left our country than came in in the last 2 years. Our country is going down hill and the illegals don't want to be here anymore.

About 340,000 reasons a year.

About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 — or 8 percent — had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a study published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/us/12babies.html?_r=0

If the cost of each baby being born is $5,000, that is $1.7 billion a year that it cost the taxpayers.

[KBScobravert]

About 340,000 reasons a year.

About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 — or 8 percent — had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a study published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/us/12babies.html?_r=0

If the cost of each baby being born is $5,000, that is $1.7 billion a year that it cost the taxpayers.

I feel this site could balance a budget for the WH.

[8mpg]

wouldnt doubt it....delivering babies is a high risk and low paid

[mikec]

So i guess we should ignore this little nugget in the story. So why did they stop the program the first time?

Bush. He did it.

[stevo]

What the fuck does delivering babies have to do with illegal immigration? If you didn't know more illegals left our country than came in in the last 2 years. Our country is going down hill and the illegals don't want to be here anymore.

So, your opinion is that the 0bama regime, though their failed economic policy, has effectively caused more illegal aliens to self-deport than their lack-luster failed immigration and border patrol policies?

Maybe so, but I doubt it. For the record, the amount that you quote is wrong, the number of illegals in our country hasn't reduced, the only thing that has happened is the RATE that they have been coming has been reduced. The still slime their way in faster than they slime their way back out.

Stevo

[LS WHAT ??]

You know the ship is sinking when the rats are jumping overboard.

If this was a FB status I would hit the like button. Lol!!