It must be noted that I started documenting these ObamaCare/healthcare related shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 ObamaCare cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past five months of 2016 there have been so many ObamaCare cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, May 2016.
Former White House Counsel (and current attorney at law) Boyden Gray accuses the Obama regime of willfully subsidizing specific ObamaCare insurance companies with your tax dollars! The accusation is titled Allocation Of Funds Collected Under The Affordable Care Act’s Transitional Reinsurance Program Between Treasury And Reinsurance-Eligible Issuers. Gray basically says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is violating ObamaCare rules which say general fund money cannot be used to pay “reinsurance-eligible issuers”. The HHS has been diverting money that’s supposed to go to the Department of the Treasury to ‘reinsurance’ companies: “….by the time the books close on TRP for the 2014 and 2015 benefit years at the end of 2016, reinsurance-eligible issuers will likely have received 98% of expected payments ($15.6 billion out of an expected $16 billion), whereas Treasury will likely have received only 12% of expected payments ($495 million out of an expected $4 billion).”
“I went shoppin’ the other day…..I went to go buy beef, and I didn’t end up with four steaks, I only ended up with two steaks….times are tough for everyone. I think a lot more money is going towards healthcare, and other hidden expenses in America that people don’t realize…when times are tough you’re gonna go to pork and chicken, and us Italians go to the pasta.”-Tommy Grisafi, agricultural commodities analyst, U.S. Farm Report 30 April 2016
Ireland based generic prescription drugs maker Endo International reported huge quarterly losses and will now eliminate 740 jobs in Alabama and North Carolina!
California: Switzerland based drugs maker Actavis eliminating 19 jobs in Corona, by July. Surgical glove maker Sempermed shutting down their Ontario location by the end of June. Without warning Visiting Nurse Association laid off 16 people in Redlands and Riverside. In Gilroy, Saint Louise Regional Hospital revealed it began laying off employees in March! Administrators admitted they won’t know how many people will lose their jobs until they are done with the layoff process, which could go on for several weeks or even months! In Stockton, Dameron Hospital shutdown its baby delivery and child healthcare services, 70 jobs lost. Insurance company UnitedHealth announced it will get the hell outta the Covered California ObamaCare insurance program by the end of the year, explaining that “The smaller overall market size and shorter term, higher-risk profile within this market segment continue to suggest we cannot broadly serve it on an effective and sustained basis.”
Florida: ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Floridians by another 17.7% in 2017! Boca Raton based Cancer Treatment Centers of America revealed it laid off 350 people across the U.S.! Administrators blame ObamaCare referring to it as “the reality of the emerging healthcare economy”. In Miramar, United Health issued a WARN, 68 jobs gone by July as the insurance company begins dropping ObamaCare plans. In Port Richey, the American Health Institute college shutdown without warning. The owner blames the administrators for wasting money while former administrators blame the owner for wasting money! Administrators also told local news media they have evidence the owner was lying about enrollment numbers to get more federal funding. The college had only 50 med-tech students. Child Development Services shutting down their Ocala operations, 272 jobs gone by the end of June!
Idaho: More corruption in the ‘christian’ dominated Gem State; Olympus Healthcare agrees to pay Idaho $107,219 in restitution after getting caught bribing (kickbacks) Idaho healthcare providers! According to magicvalley.com in the past year and a half Idaho doctors were paid-off by drug companies, to the tune of $24-million USD of ‘incentives’! Now you know why so many people in The Gem State are wacked on evil prescription drugs!
Kansas: It was revealed that Gessler Drug Company suddenly shutdown two drug stores without warning: “It hit me like a ton of bricks! ….I couldn’t tell anybody what was going on.”-Allen Ames, operated Ames Watch Repair inside Gessler’s stores for more than 40 years
Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky University announced they’re shutting down their Somerset campus at the end of June. It’s blamed on a 4.5% reduction in taxpayer funding and $8-million USD in additional ObamaCare retirement and healthcare costs.
Maine: In Bangor, god powerless to stop ‘his’ addiction treatment Manna shutting down its last two treatment centers. The “faith based” non-profit owes taxpayers at least $1-million USD! Government administrators say the christian run addiction treatment center failed to report overpayments from taxpayers, but god’s Manna administrators say “Due to decreasing state funding and declining financial support as a result of recent negative media coverage, it is with great sorrow that we find we must close our faith-based drug and alcohol programs, Elijah’s House and Derek House, on June 15, 2016.”
Massachusetts: Boston-Weak based Partners HealthCare made a major accounting error which will cause hospitals across the state to see “steep and extraordinarily serious” reductions in ObamaCare reimbursements that will cause as many as 2-thousand 1-hundred people to lose their jobs! The reimbursement accounting error was made back in September 2015, but is only now being revealed!
Mississippi: Merit Health Natchez laid off an undisclosed number of employees. Merit Health Natchez was created when Natchez Regional Medical Center and Natchez Community Hospital merged in an attempt to deal with reduced customer traffic caused by ObamaCare. Administrators said ObamaCare has reduced customer traffic so much that even their new merged hospital ops are still too big!
Missouri: Maker of parts for aerospace, military and healthcare, Machine Laboratory shutting down its Chesterfield factory, 73 jobs gone by July. In Joplin, medical battery/device maker EaglePicher Technologies laid off at least 90 people without warning: “Stabbed in the back, betrayed, no warning what-so-ever!”-unnamed former employee to local news media, who added that local police were called in to help fire the employees
“Health insurance is going to last to the end of the month. The severance package that they say was supposed to be great is going to be one more check for 40 hours.”-another unnamed former employee
Nebraska: In Lincoln, after 55 years Four Star Drug shutting down three stores! The owner blames a combination of jacked up rents (blame China) and ObamaCare. He pointed out that in 1980 only 30% of prescription drug costs were covered by insurance or government, 70% of customers paid in cash. Today he says 97% of drug costs are covered by insurance-government plans and under ObamaCare the insurance companies dictate the price, which is too low for small independent pharmacies to exist on.
New Hampshire: Elliot Health Systems shutting down their five years old Ob-Gyn operations in Manchester. The two doctors that work there say lack of customers is not the reason as 210 babies were born last year! Administrators of Elliot Health say they’re now focusing on ‘high risk pregnancies’ only, one of the affected doctors calls it BS: “I really didn’t think they’d do it because we’re just so busy….I don’t know the reasons of why they’re closing the practice.”-Thomas Antisdel
New Jersey: The Brick Board of Education warning of 17 layoffs and an increase in local taxes, blaming numerous issues including increasing employee healthcare costs caused by ObamaCare.
New York: ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for New Yorkers by another 17.3% in 2017! That which cannot be named powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘its’ Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. The Villager reports that three nurses are blowing the whistle on plans to shutdown the hospital, which has survived The Great Depression and numerous recessions. Administrators had been talking about renovations, but three months ago that talk stopped and now some nurses are being offered transfers elsewhere. It’s finally been revealed that NYC based EmblemHealth eliminated 250 Information Technology (IT) jobs! They’re switching to a contractor.
North Carolina: Medical device maker Arrow International eliminating 456 jobs in Ashboro, between now and sometime in 2017!
Oregon: ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Oregonians by as much as 30% in 2017!
Pennsylvania: Pocono Medical Center laid off 55 people. In Catasauqua, Medical Academy Charter School shutting down in July. The school is in debt by $1.8-million USD, and has only $4-thousand in cash to operate on!
Rhode Island: Westerly School Committee laid off 18 people due to not getting the anticipated increase in taxpayer funding, and due to jacked up ObamaCare costs: “Healthcare is going up $300-thousand, we have to pay that, we have no choice, but we only got about $130-thousand in our allocation from the town, so that is not even covering the healthcare cost, much less anything else!”-David Patten
Tennessee: In Limestone, ‘god’ powerless to stop nursing home John M. Reed Health & Rehabilitation shutting down due to the federal government ending Medicare/Medicaid payments. The board members include members of the Church of the Brethren. In 2015 the nursing home was accused of having so called “deficiencies” that could threaten the health of patients, mainly a lack of competent employees.
Utah: Utah based cancer doctor William E. Nibley is warning that the Obama regime is about to institute an Medicare Part B ‘experiment’ which could result in the shutdown of 75% of cancer treatment providers! In 2013 the Obama regime slashed Part B reimbursements and under this new cancer treatment experiment will slash and burn payments to doctors/clinics even more! Obama regime cronies (with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) say the ‘experiment’ is meant to see if reducing payments will actually reduce the level of care for people dealing with cancer!
Washington: ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Washingtonians by another 13.5% in 2017! In Bainbridge Island, after 60 years Winslow Drug shutting down. The owner blames multiple reasons, but says the final straws were when Virginia Mason announced it was shutting down its Bainbridge Island Medical Center, and reductions in insurance reimbursements caused by ObamaCare.
Washington DC: California owned Howard University Hospital eliminating 110 jobs by the end of June! So far for this fiscal year the hospital has lost $10-million USD, no thanks to ObamaCare!
Wyoming: Due to incompetent doctors, which are now resulting in “a flood of litigation”, Powell Valley Healthcare now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
ObamaCare job destruction, April 2016: “it’s referred to as restructuring & the cuts aren’t deep enough”
ObamaCare = Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification