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 seven 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, July 2016:
It’s been revealed that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been intimidating U.S. doctors into conducting body cavity searches on immigrant patients! In at least one case the victim is a U.S. citizen: “The woman was transported in handcuffs to the University Medical Center of El Paso, where she was subjected to an observed bowel movement, a CT scan as well as rectal and vaginal exams without a warrant… ….the hospital charged the woman $5,000…”
Becker’s Hospital Review reports that the following hospital operators are now bankrupt busted: (Ohio) Coshocton County Memorial Hospital, (California) Colusa Regional Medical Center and Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center, (Louisiana) Winn Parish Medical Center in Winnfield; Avoyelles Hospital in Marksville; and Oakdale Community Hospital. Pioneer Health Services affecting the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia. Forest Park Medical Center affecting two hospitals in Texas.
Alabama: A former healthcare worker pled guilty to stealing patient’s data in a scam to use that data to file false tax returns. West Alabama Emergency Services suddenly halted service for Bibb County, due to the resignation of their only licensed medical director: “This leaves people in that area with no ambulance service. It’s 20 miles to Centreville and 22 or 23 to Tuscaloosa.”-Robert Caffee, paramedic
Arizona: Tucson based fake heart maker SynCardia Systems now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and being sold-off, the new owner promises not to ‘arrest’ production of the only FDA approved artificial heart. University of Arizona is eliminating 58 jobs with its Health Plans ops, due to the loss of a major Medicaid contract. After a six years freeze on enrollments, state administrators will allow children to once again be enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP, aka KidsCare). Enrollment was frozen because of lack of taxpayer funding, affecting as many as 40-thousand children!
Arkansas: The owner of two children’s mental health facilities convicted of attempting to bribe a former deputy director of the state Department of Human Services.
California: Medical products distributor Owens & Minor issued layoff WARNs for Ontario and Tracy, 189 jobs gone by the end of August! Drugs maker Actavis eliminating ten jobs in Corona, by September. San Diego based drugs maker Arena Pharmaceuticals eliminating 1-hundred jobs! In San Diego, state Employment Development Department finally published the layoff WARN issued by Scripps Health, 150 jobs lost back in May! Hospice care provider Peppermint Holdings issued a layoff WARN for their Ontario location, 60 jobs gone by mid-August.
Florida: In Gainesville, Fluor Federal Services issued a WARN, 125 healthcare/social assistance jobs gone by the end of August! MetLife eliminating 74 jobs in Tampa, by the end of October. Taxpayer grant money sucking medical researcher Scripps Florida suddenly eliminated at least 14 jobs with their Jupiter ops. A local news report said that in 2003 Gov’na Jeb bush gave Scripps $310-million taxpayer dollars with the expectation that 50-thousand jobs would be created within 15 years, so far the number of jobs created are only a fraction of that! Baptist Health South Florida bribing employees to quit (voluntary buyouts) in order to free-up cash for investments into “growth areas”.
Illinois: A former manager of Schaumburg based Suburban Home Physicians was convicted of Medicare fraud, sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to payback $15-million USD. Two other employees of Suburban Home Physicians were convicted of the scam, but for some reason the details of their trials are being withheld from news media.
Iowa: In Charles City, Mercy Family Clinic shutting down due to competition. University of Iowa suddenly shutdown their clinic in Sigourney, due to ObamaCare forcing them to focus on “specialty services”.
Kentucky: Louisville based Humana announced it will cease providing ObamaCare insurance in at least four states by 2017, blaming “persistent risk selection challenges” (meaning they can’t make profits off ObamaCare).
Michigan: In K.I. Sawyer, water, air and food purification product maker Biogenic Reagents suddenly laid off 35 people, no reason given. Michigan State University shutting down its Women’s Healthcare Clinic in Lansing, ‘officially’ due to lack of doctors. A doctor agrees to pay $8-million USD for tricking healthy people into dangerous radioactive chemo and other “aggressive” anti-cancer therapies. It was proven that at least 40 of the more than 5-hundred victims did not have cancer! The doctor was also convicted of frauding Medicare and will spend 45 years in prison. However, not all the evil doctor’s victims will get justice due to Michigan’s unfair laws protecting doctors: “Unfortunately under these circumstances and under Michigan law, Fata’s victims were never going to receive fair levels of compensation.”-Brian McKeen, attorney
Missouri: In Springfield, Ozarks Community Hospital eliminated 2-hundred jobs, and shutdown its OR and ER operations, due to ObamaCare canceling their Medicare contract!
Montana: In Billings, Saint Vincent Healthcare effectively eliminated 84 jobs, and shutting down their Shirley’s Place Child Care Center, blaming changes in the healthcare industry (like ObamaCare pushing people out of inpatient care) which is causing their revenues to crash. “…Montana residents, who call themselves pain refugees, boarded an airplane from Missoula to Los Angeles. They say that finding doctors willing to treat chronic pain in Montana is almost impossible… In the past several years, the Montana Board of Medical Examiners has taken on several high-profile cases of doctors it suspects of overprescribing opioids.”-Kaiser Health News
Nevada: In Elko a doctor tazered a patient allegedly because the patient was “combative” and there is a lack of security in the hospital.
New Hampshire: In Lebanon, after 118 years Kleen Laundry service now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The majority of Kleen Laundry’s customers are hospitals.
New Jersey: Madison based Quest Diagnostics’ Prescription Drug Monitoring Report 2016 says 54% of U.S. citizens are prescription drug addicts! Whitehouse Station based drugs maker Merck eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs at three ‘east coast’ research facilities. Morristown based drugs maker Pernix Therapeutics Holdings eliminating 60 sales jobs. A 10 years old autistic boy stabbed ten times by a psychiatric nurse, after she bent back his finger until it “cracked” and inflicted various other assaults that took place during a 12 hours period back in May! State investigators say she did it because she was angry that the autistic boy refused to follow her orders!
New York: In Pearl River, drugs maker Pfizer issued a restructuring WARN, 151 jobs gone by the end of October! Federal investigators are looking into current ‘elected’ mayor Bill de Blasio’s connection to the sale of Long Island College Hospital. Supposedly the buyer of the hospital is a property developer with direct connections to de Blasio’s assistants. NYC based Oscar Health jacking up its rates by at least 13% in 2017, as well as cutting more than 50% of its network. Administrators blame huge losses in 2015. In Brooklyn NYC, Shiel Medical Laboratory laying off 165 people starting in October, due to getting the hell outta New York City (relocating to New Jersey)! New York Dialysis Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Harlem Dialysis clinic, 26 jobs gone by Halloween. VillageCare Home Care issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ops, 87 jobs gone by November.
Oregon: Providence Health Plan ending insurance coverage for 11-thousand customers starting January 2017! Administrators essentially said they will focus on insurance plans that they know can make them a profit.
Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley Health Network continues to eliminate jobs, this time 34 people becoming unemployed due to ObamaCare: “As the national model for healthcare delivery continues to transform, it’s necessary for LVHN to identify ways to provide better care to more people at a lower cost.”-Lehigh Valley Health Network
South Carolina: LexingtonMedicalCenter agrees to pay $17-million USD fine for Medicare fraud.
Virginia: Insurance company Genworth Financial eliminating 50 jobs in Richmond and Lynchburg.
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) canceled $57-billion USD worth of TRICARE contracts with UnitedHealthcare. TRICARE is the U.S. military’s health insurance program for employee’s families (prior to TRICARE it was known as CHAMPUS). According to news reports UnitedHealthcare was delaying payments for services rendered. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reports that 59% of U.S. hospitals lost access to their Electronic Health Records (EHR)!
Wyoming: The Peak Wellness Center eliminating at least 16 jobs and shutting down ops due to lack of taxpayer funding: “We will be closing two of our specialized programs, the Haven in Laramie County and the Chrysalis House in Pine Bluffs, also Laramie County. Unfortunately, we are also closing our peer-specialized program and our satellite offices in Pine Bluffs and Guernsey.”-Linda Goodman, Chief Clinical Officer
ObamaCare job destruction, June 2016: “NO LONGER SUSTAIN THE FINANCIAL LOSSES”
ObamaCare = Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification