Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in November 2018:
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Germany based drugs maker Bayer getting the hell outta the animal health business, as well as selling-off Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s, 12-thousand jobs worldwide gone due to investor pressure!
Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk cutting 1,300 additional jobs, blaming the U.S. economy
New York Times: More Evidence That Welfare Work Requirements Don’t Lift People Out of Poverty
ARKANSAS: Arkansas drops 3815 more Medicaid enrollees over work requirement
CALIFORNIA: Christian Adventist Health Feather River issued a layoff WARN, 11 people jobless in January 2019. Drugs maker Pfizer issued a shutdown WARN for its San Mateo County factory, 1-hundred jobs gone in February 2019! American Addiction Centers suddenly shutdown its Santa Monica location.
COLORADO: Centura Health laying off 50 at Christian Adventist hospital
Kaiser Permanente Colorado lays off 200 employees
FLORIDA: Molina Healthcare issued layoff WARNs for locations statewide, 137 jobs gone by February 2019! Drugs pusher Bristol-Myers Squibb issued a WARN for its Tampa ops, 69 jobs gone in January 2019. DPN USA-HealthFair issued a WARN, 110 jobs gone by the end of the year!
Boca Raton-based hospital chain operator Promise Healthcare Group now chapter 11 bankrupt busted
Cancer Treatment Centers of America announces layoffs due to drop in ObamaCare insurance reimbursements
On 01NOV2018, non-profit AmeriCares set up ‘Clinic in a Can’ operations in conjunction with FEMA and Florida Department of Health. This is a fine example of how bad things are in the U.S. because AmeriCares was originally established to help people in poverty stricken countries.
GEORGIA: Mandatory flu vaccines for U.S. Army personnel at Fort Stewart.
IDAHO: Medicaid expansion passes in Idaho
Health insurance in Idaho: What it all costs
ILLINOIS: ATI Physical Therapy issued a layoff WARN, 43 people in Bolingbrook jobless in January 2019.
IOWA: Non-profit UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown shutdown its ICU, 25 jobs gone
KENTUCKY: Christian Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital suddenly eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, no reason made public
Trump admin reapproves Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirement waivers
MARYLAND: The federal government’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is finally going to study why families who lost loved ones due to military service can’t seem to recover from the loss. It’s called the National Military Family Bereavement Study (NMFBS), and it’s the first large scientific study on the impact of service member death on surviving family members!
Crothall Healthcare to close Belcamp laundry plant, lay off 152 workers
Kent Island Urgent Care closing
MICHIGAN: Sturgis Hospital cuts 60 jobs, closes departments
MINNESOTA: American Medical Systems issued a WARN, 50 jobs gone. Corthall Healthcare issued a WARN, 18 jobs gone.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Feds OK NH Medicaid Work Requirement
NEW JERSEY: Mass layoff WARNs issued by Salem Clinic/Homecare/Medical Professionals/Hospital Corporation, 397 jobs gone by the end of the year! Sun Pharma issued a WARN for its Cranbury location, 96 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.
Memorial Hospital of Salem County will lay off 408 employees due to being sold-off
NEW YORK: Emerald South Nursing & Rehabilitation Center issued a shutdown WARN for its Buffalo location, 160 jobs gone between now and January 2019! Reproductive Specialists of New York issued a shutdown WARN for all its locations, 119 jobs gone by February 2019 due to being taken over by a competitor! Laboratory Corporation of America-Esoterix Genetics Laboratories-Integrated Oncology issued a layoff WARN, 160 jobs being affected by consolidation ops! Fedcap Rehabilitation Services-WeCARE Program issued a shutdown WARN for its contract with NYC, 491 jobs affected by the end of January 2019!
OHIO: Mid-Town Health issued WARNs for two locations, 349 jobs gone by January 2019!
RHODE ISLAND: Cranston pharmacy closing after more than 6 decades
SOUTH CAROLINA: BlueCross BlueShield of S Carolina to lay off 244 workers
SOUTH DAKOTA: State’s mental health ‘Bermuda Triangle’ disappears patients
VERMONT: health care and education crises
VIRGINIA: Chippenham and Johnston-Willis hospitals lost a contract, 139 jobs gone
WASHINGTON: PeaceHealth accused of overbilling Medicare patients
WISCONSIN: GE issued a WARN for its electro-medical device Global Operations in Wauwatosa, 63 jobs gone in January 2019.
Work Requirement Approved for Wisconsin Medicaid
Columbia: U.S. personnel of the USNS Comfort provide ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Colombians, 17NOV2018.
Honduras: U.S. Southern Command’s Medical Element Preventative Medicine operation tested the drinking water in Comayagua and Siguatepeque, 07NOV2018. It’s part of the U.S. military’s taxpayer funded foreign community outreach ops.
Peru: USN Captain Kevin Buckley, from the U.S. hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), presents donated medical supplies to the Peruvian Ministry of Health at one of two medical sites, 05NOV2018. Personnel aboard USNS Comfort also provided ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Peruvians.
Rwanda: U.S. Army and Air Force personnel inspect the Rwanda Military Hospital, 30NOV2018.
United Arab Emirates: Despite the fact that the U.S. uses sleep deprivation on prisoners (both military and civilian prisoners) the U.S. 380th Air Expeditionary Wing (based in UAE) made this video to point out that sleep deprivation results in mental health problems:
ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral October 2018:“EVERY SINGLE MONTH….HAS BEEN A GRIND”