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 six 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, June 2016:
Consumer Reports says the number of ‘surprise’ medical bills is skyrocketing, affecting one out of every three people with private insurance in 2015! PBS News Hour revealed how many people are losing their savings as a result.
Germany based drugs maker Boehringer Ingelheim announced it is eliminating at least 724 jobs with its U.S. operations!
Arizona: Walgreens shutting down all 40 of their Grand Canyon State Theranos Wellness Centers and ending its partnership with California based blood testing lab Theranos. It’s connected to Medicare and Medicaid rejecting numerous test results from Theranos.
California: Blood tester Theranos facing shutdown after Medicare-Medicaid declared their test results invalid, and losing their major contract with Walgreens. In the Los Angeles area, Gardens Regional Hospital now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, attorneys for the hospital blame ObamaCare. Due to ObamaCare’s efforts to direct people away from hospitals and Obamacare’s massive insurance reimbursement cuts, Gardens Regional Hospital is in debt by $26-million USD and hasn’t paid rent since April! At least 322 jobs threatened! Visiting Nurse Association revealed they laid off an additional 68 people in Redlands, Riverside and Victorville (between April & May). Interesting, Abbot Vascular officially (and finally) revealed it laid off 160 people in Redwood City, back in December 2015! In San Diego, Scripps Health revealed it laid off 122 people in May! CVS Pharmacy consolidating its Coram financial ops, resulting in 152 people in Rancho Cordova becoming jobless in September! Corizon Health eliminated 156 jobs in two locations! In Corona, Switzerland based drugs maker Actavis issued a layoff WARN, 31 jobs gone by August. In Modesto, American Medical Response-Centrex laying off eight people by Xmas. StemCells shutting down its Newark and Sunnyvale locations, 53 jobs lost by August. Prometheus Laboratories laying off 55 San Diegans by August.
Connecticut: Recovery center Crossroads issued a layoff WARN for its New Haven location, to take place by mid-August.
Georgia: By February 2016, Consumer Reports found that the percentage of Georgians getting unexpected medical bills, because their wonderful insurance companies refuse to pay-up, hit 46%.
Idaho: ObamaCare insurance providers are demanding premium increases from anywhere between 27% and an insane 122% for Blue Cross’s ObamaCare Gold Plan! In Boise, an Oregon woman pled guilty to stealing $850-thousand USD from corrupt ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health System. The woman ran the scam through her Boise employer Pinnacle Pension Services. Saint Luke’s itself has been caught ‘stealing’ local tax dollars.
Illinois: American General Life Insurance issued a layoff WARN for their Springfield location, 70 jobs lost by Xmas, no reason given. In Naperville, Centrad Healthcare lost a contract, 162 jobs gone between now and November! Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living warned of more layoffs: “It’s incredibly difficult as a team member here to watch your team members leave without their choice in it because the state can’t do their part that they are empowered to do and we are empowered to deliver these services.”-Michelle Miller, executive director
Iowa: Independence Mental Health Institute shutting down their Psychiatric Medical Institution for Children Unit, claiming a 50% decrease in utilization. Drugs maker NewLink Genetics laid off 87 people due to the failure on one of their cancer drugs.
Kansas: In Wichita, Via Christi Health eliminating 70 more jobs on top of the 80 they’ve already cut! Yet, at the same time hospital administrators told local news that they plan to hire 80 people!
Kentucky: Kindred Healthcare refuse to renew the lease on their Nursing and Rehabilitation-Bashford operations, 153 jobs lost by August!
Maryland: Missouri based finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems shutdown its Baltimore office.
Mississippi: The state Department of Health warning of more layoffs due to taxpayer funding cut of $4-million USD: “Over the next several months, we will be also sending people home. We just don’t know how many people yet.”-Mary Currier, state health officer
Missouri: Finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems eliminating 150 jobs in Kansas City!
New Jersey: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth from shutting down their Florham Park Saint Anne Villa retirement home, 135 jobs gone by August! In Hamilton, disabled people “self-determined life” enhancer Meridian Services laid off 97 people. Inspira Medical Center eliminating at least 67 jobs at two locations by August.
New York: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics conducting another round of shutdown layoffs in Rochester, 86 people jobless by October. Apparently the medical device maker employee 1-thousand people at one time. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Catholic Charities from issuing a shutdown WARN for the Casa Betsaida Homeless Program, which will shutdown in September due to “lack of funding”.
Ohio: The Mahoning County Children Services Board laying off 22 employees and shutting down the Glenwood group home due to lack of teenaged residents.
Oklahoma: Health insurance giant Blue Cross-Blue Shield is demanding a 49% increase in premiums for their ObamaCare plans!
Oregon: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Catholic owned Saint Anthony Hospital from laying off half their administrative staff, blaming millions of dollars of losses since 2015, which is being caused by disputes with ObamaCare insurance providers.
Tennessee: Bankrupt Pioneer Community Hospital of Scott County shutting down by the end of the month, because it could “no longer sustain the financial losses” caused by ObamaCare. The nearest hospital is now a 50 minute drive away. In East Ridge, after 71 years the Kingwood Pharmacy shutdown, supposedly it’s being replaced with a compounding (customized drug making) operation.
Texas: Health insurance giant Blue Cross-Blue Shield is demanding a 53% increase in premiums for their ObamaCare plans!
Virginia: ObamaCare literally killed an ambulance company. Mid-Atlantic Regional Ambulance suddenly shutdown due to not being paid boo-koo Medicare reimbursements for services rendered. 50 jobs gone. Under Virginia’s version of ObamaCare, Medicare must pre-approve such services!
Washington: Kitsap Mental Health Services suddenly laid off 15 people in the outpatient ward. Local news media said Kitsap Mental is still advertising for 30 open positions (possibly the result of the county’s new mental health tax). The sudden layoffs might be connected to the expiration of a federal taxpayer funded grant.
Washington DC: And for more proof ObamaCare is killing the economy, even the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the Affordable Care Act is the main driver behind skyrocketing costs of operations for employers. Over the past 12 months healthcare benefit costs rose 3.3%, in the previous 12 months they rose 2.5%. Wage costs are also blamed, not because employees are actually being paid more but because their productivity is going down (of course, who wants to continue busting their ass for some employer who won’t give them a decent raise or who could kill their jobs without warning?).
Wisconsin: After only 10 years of operations god powerless to stop ‘his’ Midwest Spine and Orthopedic Hospital and Wisconsin Heart Hospital from shutting down. It’s blamed on the takeover by Ascension Health this year, 192 jobs threatened!
Wyoming: Wyoming Medical Center suddenly laid off 58 employees, blaming the state’s failed version of ObamaCare. 57 vacant positions have been shutdown and work hours for employees cutback. Administrators say they’re experiencing an increase in patient volume but at the same time a massive decrease in government and private insurance reimbursements.
ObamaCare job destruction, May 2016: “TIMES ARE TOUGH…A LOT MORE MONEY IS GOING TOWARDS HEALTHCARE”
ObamaCare = Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification