fines for hospitals treating uninsured Americans

[jyro]

Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.Charity for the uninsured is one of the factors that could discourage enrollment in Obamacare, which requires all Americans to purchase heath insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/08/ob...#ixzz2bRjbw1F0

[Sean88gt]

This bill is the single biggest clusterfuck I've ever witnessed. Seems to defeat the idea that being seen in an emergency is greater than ones ability to carry insurance.

[YALE]

I'm ok with a little outside auditing. Even the charitable hospitals rape you for every little thing.

[BP]

But I thought socialism helped poor people?

[ceyko]

Hell, how about start will illegals and then worry about the uninsured?

An uninsured American will have an address...etc...etc Illegals just have NOTHING to lose by not paying.

[Vertnut]

Hell, how about start will illegals and then worry about the uninsured?

An uninsured American will have an address...etc...etc Illegals just have NOTHING to lose by not paying.

Whoa! They are the "sacred cow" of our country! Uncle Barry and his regime will make any American eat shit and die before turning away an illegal.

[line-em-up]

But I thought socialism helped poor people?

No, it make us all equally poor. Except for the elite.

[line-em-up]

Reading that article pisses me off... again. I've decided that I am not going to worry about it anymore. In 2.5 years we will be rid of that monkey in the WH. We will have someone in there to straighten this mess out. If not, we can do what should have been done already and start exterminating MF's until they are all gone.

[BP]

No, it make us all equally poor. Except for the elite.

I have a friend who immigrated here (legally) from China and his best description of communism is that it spreads the misery equally amongst the masses.

Also for the record he's the second worst driver I've ever seen, his wife being the worst.

[aggie97]

The bitch is they cannot deny care regardless of your status so they are forced to commit a crime...not legal. If it truly is a fine. More proof the .gov is grabbing at any penny they can....even dying childrens money.

[Country cracker]

Hospitals will just start offering insurance, if they have not already.

[jyro]

Obamacare Targets Catholic Hospitals to Strip Them of Tax-Exempt Status

The bitch is they cannot deny care regardless of your status so they are forced to commit a crime...not legal.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamacare-targets-catholic-hospitals-to-strip-them-of-tax-exempt-status/

Healthcare experts warn that the Obamacare’s new requirements make it almost impossible for charitable hospitals to navigate treacherous new waters.

“It requires tax-exempt hospitals to do a community needs survey and file additional paperwork with the IRS every three years. This is to prove that the charitable hospital is still needed in their geographical area — ‘needed’ as defined by Obamacare and overseen by IRS bureaucrats,” said John Kartch, spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform.

“Failure to comply, or to prove this continuing need, could result in the loss of the hospital’s tax-exempt status. The hospital would then become a for-profit venture, paying income tax — hence the positive revenue score” for the federal government, Kartch said.

Additionally, the rise in the number of insured Americans under Obamacare will make it more difficult for tax-exempt hospitals to continue meeting required thresholds for treating the uninsured, driving more hospitals into the for-profit category and yielding more taxable money for the federal government.