Good news for hospitals

[packman]

Drop in uninsured people due to ACA. Result: more money coming in - perhaps resulting in better wages for nurses, workers, better equipment, more resources, and general improvement overall in hospital care. Good news, IMHO.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hospitals-drop-uninsured-obamacare-bloomberg

[Ron Green]

1. That's one upside, and a good one. One downside is

that it doesn't control costs in a sustainable way. Another downside, of course, is that it further establishes private insurance companies in the mix. Perhaps the greatest upside is that at last health care transformation is becoming a topic of conversation and awareness for enough people that single payer can start to become viable in more states.

[Gothmog]

2. This is not true for states that did not expand medicaid

I have heard that Texas hospitals are hurting

[jwirr]

3. Of course it is not true for those states. This is what they turned down - help for their medicaid

program and their hospitals.

[packman]

4. Maybe it'll be a wake-up call for those states

More pressure on the idiots to make the right decision - another good outcome. Unfortunately, the citizens of those states suffer.