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Ohhhhhh...I see the problem. These are DOCTOR-OWNED hospitals (i.e., private Capitalists looking to make money).

This is just the beginning. The goal of socialized Obamacare is to eliminate the private healthcare industry and replace it with a government-run system similar to Europe and Communist countries. Those who refuse to obey will be put out of business.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ls_525950.html

Obamacare Ends Construction of Doctor-Owned Hospitals

2:50 PM, Jan 3, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Under the headline, "Construction Stops at Physician Hospitals," Politico reports today that "Physician Hospitals of America says that construction had to stop at 45 hospitals nationwide or they would not be able to bill Medicare for treatments." Stopping construction at doctor-owned hospitals might not seem like the best way to boost the economy or to promote greater access and choice in health care, but that exactly what Obamacare is doing.

Kenneth Artz of the Heartland Institute explains, "Section 6001 of the health care law effectively bans new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) from starting up, and it keeps existing ones from expanding." Politico adds, "Friday [New Year's Eve] marked the last day physician-owned hospitals could get Medicare certification covering their new or expanded hospitals, one of the latest provisions of the reform law to go into effect."

This little-noticed but particularly egregious aspect of Obamacare is, by all accounts, a concession to the powerful American Hospital Association (AHA), a supporter of Obamacare, which prefers to have its member hospitals operate without competition from hospitals owned by doctors. Dr. Michael Russell, president of Physician Hospitals of America, which has filed suit to try to stop this selective building-ban from going into effect, says, "There are so many regulations [in Obamacare] and they are so onerous and intrusive that we believe that the section [Section 6001] was deliberately designed so no physician owned hospital could successfully comply."

Artz writes, "According to Russell, the AHA, along with Sen. [Max] Baucus (D-MT) and Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), are responsible for the language in Section 6001." But the responsibility for all aspects of the overhaul primarily lies with outgoing-House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and, particularly, Obamacare's principal champion, President Barack Obama.

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This provision in the bill was co-written by Charles Grassley. It comes from data showing that care at physician-owned hospitals was unpredictable, producing spikes in deaths and conflicts in priorities which could be tied to profit-chasing shortcuts.

The problems proved serious and consistent enough that both the House and Senate found bipartisan support for language eliminating Medicare funding to doctor-owned hospitals that were not certified by January 1.

Sounds like a reasonable response to a chronic problem. If a military contractor delivers sub-standard services, they lose contracts. In this case, delivery of sub-standard services removed Medicare certification to for-profit hospitals owned by doctors.