Hospitals are going to be fined for "readmitting patients". Will they keep elderly longer?

Sad news for our chronically ill.

I believe the above poster is correct. Like everything else, this cost will be passed onto the consumer

- regardless of income.

Obama has really screwed us. Instead of raising the taxes of our middle and lower classes exorbitantly, he has levied all these penalties that in the end will have the same effect bc our necessary costs have been raised.

At any rate, the rich have enough money that they are kept for as long as needed and won't be sent home until truly well.

I have a niece whose father is very wealthy. She was kept in the hospital for almost 6 weeks until her baby was born in April due to complications of her pregnancy. How many people do you know who get such treatment? When I was pregnant and in the same condition, I was sent home with meds that kept me asleep for the last two months of my pregnancy, and I had very good insurance through my husband's job with the railroad.

They will only be fined if they don't have good cause for readmitting them within 30 days. The patient will not suffer for it except that we will all see higher medical bills.

It is obvious that if hospitals are punished for trying to fix a problem, they will decline the punishment. The human body is not a machine - it is infinitely variable. And every last one of us is going to die.

Neither. They will admit them, and then

give them a needle full of morphine.

Happens already. Happened to somebody I knew.