“It’s not really affordable. I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep it.”-Erica Cherington, disability case worker reacting to her new Obama Care premium after it was revised upward because of her income, she says it would be cheaper to pay the tax penalty for not having Obama Care!
Incomplete list of healthcare (and other industries) job cuts that took place, or were announced, from January to March 2015, and were directly or indirectly blamed on Obama Care:
A company that specializes in collecting payments for medical bills from individuals, Value Healthcare Services, is now alarmed at how many hospitals are going bankrupt, so much so they are compiling lists of failed hospitals: Hospitals that Filed for Bankruptcy in 2014
An east coast health insurance company is killing jobs, no thanks to Obama Care. Highmark laid off almost 1-hundred people in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia! Administrators admit that since Obama Care went into effect they’ve actually lost customers, so much so that they have to make drastic cuts! Apparently Obama Care favors Highmark’s competitor Aetna as many of Highmark’s customers were forced to change insurance plans and become Aetna and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center customers. One report says Highmark lost 60% of “market share” just in the western half of Pennsylvania!
Alabama: Obama Care forcing the only mental hospital in the Tennessee Valley to shutdown? North Alabama Regional Hospital will shutdown by June, 149 jobs lost! Obama Care forcing Alabama Psychiatric Services to shutdown. 250 jobs lost and 28-hundred patients affected! Administrators say Obama Care created a situation in which Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama pushed the majority of people into more expensive insurance plans, and effectively killed off most of Alabama Psychiatric Services business! (What was that about Obama Care increasing access to healthcare?)
California: In Turlock, MedicAlert laid off 31 employees. In Gold River, Obama Care caused eHealthInsurance Services to layoff 72 people without warning, then announced plans to eliminate 160 more jobs! eHealth administrators blame The Golden State’s Obama Care exchange program for stealing thousands of eHealth customers! Keck Medicine of USC issued several WARNS saying 94 people will become unemployed in May. In San Francisco, legal drugs pusher Amgen announced it will eliminate as many as 3-hundred drugs making jobs and shutdown its recently acquired Onyx Pharmaceuticals ops! News reports say Amgen’s announcement still leaves 2-hundred Onyx Pharmaceuticals jobs in limbo. In Novato, Fireman’s Fund Insurance issued a WARN saying they laid off 23 people. In Foothill Ranch, legal drugs pusher Pfizer issued a WARN saying they will shutdown in May, 70 jobs lost. Obama Care forcing El Centro Medical Center to issue a WARN saying 20 people will be laid off in April. In San Pablo, Obama Care forcing Doctors Medical Center to issue a shutdown WARN for April, 709 jobs lost!
Colorado: God refuses to stop Obama Care from forcing ‘his’ Arapahoe County based non-profit Catholic Health Initiative from laying off 15-hundred people across the United States!
Connecticut: Fairfield based GE (General Electric) canceled Obama Care health insurance for any retired employee who is younger than 65 years! A judge recently allowed GE to kick all its 65-thousand retirees off of company health insurance and onto expensive private Obama Care insurance! Obama Care being blamed for the demise of Waterbury Hospital. Administrators say they are losing $9.7-million USD because of Obama Care, they are now trying to sell the hospital! Four other non-profit hospitals are up for sale as well! Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 460 jobs threatened!
Florida: In Miami, Obama Care forcing Crothall Healthcare to layoff 54 employees. Obama Care forcing non-profit healthcare provider Florida Blue to eliminate 150 jobs! In Weston, Obama Care forcing wholesale legal drugs pusher Vital Pharmaceuticals to issue a WARN saying 143 people will become jobless in April!
Idaho: Virginia based Obama Care call center operator Maximus shutdown their Boise call center, rendering 15-hundred people jobless! According to state WARN records, Maximus was planning to shutdown back in April 2014.
Illinois: In Harvey, Obama Care forcing 92 years old Ingalls Memorial Hospital to layoff 80 people and shutdown their child care center. Administrators say Obama Care, plus the bad economy, is forcing them to slash $3.5-million from its budget!
Indiana: CVS Pharmacy issued a shutdown WARN for their Coram Enteral Nutrition Center, at least 124 jobs lost!
Iowa: Gov’na Terry Branstad issued layoff notices for 36 employees at the state run mental health institution in Mount Pleasant. The gov’na wants to shutdown the mental health hospital in Clarinda as well, meaning 150 jobs will be lost between April and mid-summer!
Maryland: In Hagerstown, after 22 years Obama Care forcing the Robinwood Surgery Center to shutdown. The operators said Obama Care is forcing healthcare providers to become smaller, so much for expanding access to healthcare.
Massachusetts: Legal drugs pusher Synta Pharmaceuticals announced it will layoff 20% of its employees. They laid off workers last year. Obama Care forced Southcoast Health System to layoff 35 people. Three months ago they laid off 70 people. Near Boston Weak, drugs makers Merck and AstraZeneca both announced they will kill jobs. Between the two more than 2-hundred drug making jobs will be eliminated! Merck is shutting down its recently acquired Cubist ops, and AstraZeneca is shutting down its Infection iMed unit. In Tauton, the last old school silversmith, 191 years old (surviving the Long Depression, Civil War, Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Reed & Barton now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down in June! The CEO said insurance industry written Obamacare was the final straw as it caused their employee retirement plan costs to skyrocket to as much as $18-million per year: “It absolutely killed us….We hung on as long as we could…it’s been all-consuming for the past year and half.”-Tim Riddle
Michigan: The city of Detroit is kicking many retired city employees off the city health insurance plan, due to a federal court ruling on ObamaCare! Here’s what one ignorant retired city worker said: “How can human beings that have given so much be cast aside?”-Nancy Headapohl (that’s exactly what happened to millions of people in the former Soviet Union, and good ol’ Ronald Reagan took credit for wining that Cold War)
Montana: In Kalispell, Obama Care forcing 30 patients to find a new assisted living center by April. Reports indicate that the owner of Greenwood Village assisted living center can’t make money under Obama Care funding, so he’s turning it into a hotel! Bilderberger vaccine pusher GlaxoSmithKline announced they’re shutting down their Hamilton research center during 2015, at least 27 jobs lost. Administrators also warned shutdowns and layoffs will take place elsewhere: “Other parts of the business are facing similar restructuring. It’s happening companywide, not just Hamilton, but all parts of GSK’s business.”-Melinda Stubbee
Nebraska: In Lincoln, Nationwide Insurance has notified employees of Allied Insurance that 140 of them will become jobless by 2020! Blame Obama Care, because Nationwide says Obama Care will result in less insurance claims being filed, which is exactly what the insurance industry wanted. Obama Care forcing CHI Health to kill off a minimum of 156 jobs: “As the landscape of the health care industry changes, how health care systems are organized changes as well. In an effort to bring healthcare costs down, across the country, expense reductions are being made and staffing is being restructured. CHI Health is no different, and will be reducing its workforce across the organization. Many of the reductions will be accomplished through attrition, and not filling open positions. However, the plan also includes the elimination of 156 active positions, about 1 percent of its workforce.”-company statement
New York: In NYC, Rivington House shutdown their The Nicholas A. Rango Healthcare Facility in February, at least 214 jobs lost! In Rouses Point, legal drugs maker Pfizer issued a WARN saying they will shutdown by June. Is Obama Care responsible for the shutdown of Jewish home healthcare services? In Bronx, FEGS (Federation Employment and Guidance Services) Family Care Services (Jewish Home Healthcare) issued a WARN saying they lost their contract with the state Children Services, 80 jobs lost by March. FEGS also issued a WARN saying as a result they must “restructure” resulting in at least 206 employees across the state becoming jobless by May! Is Obama Care forcing Phoenix House to shutdown its residential treatment center Westchester Academy? 56 employees will be laid off in June. In Staten Island, Obama Care forcing Richmond University Medical Center to outsource their security guard jobs, 31 in-house security guards to become unemployed in June. In Pomona, Israel based Teva Pharmaceuticals issued a WARN saying they started laying off employees back in December 2014, and it will continue until March 2015. In Irving, TLC Health Network/Lake Shore Health Care Center issued a WARN saying Obama Care forcing them to shutdown their long term care ops in April, 70 jobs lost. The Nicholas A. Rango Healthcare Facility has been sold to Allure Group, WARN indicates 158 of the 204 employees will become jobless! In Pittsford, service provider for government-sponsored benefits programs such as the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Maximus issued a WARN saying at least 54 people will become jobless due to the failure to win an Obama Care contract. In Hauppauge, God refuses to stop Obama Care from forcing ‘his’ Catholic Health Services from issuing a WARN saying they will shutdown their Home Support Services in May, at least 40 jobs lost. In Huntington, Obama Care forcing mental healthcare provider The Pederson Krag Center to sell its offices across New York, at least 85 jobs lost between March and April (not known if new owner will continue operations). In Suffern, Switzerland based legal drugs maker Novartis began a 4th round of layoffs, letting go 89 employees. By the time the drugs factory is shutdown in 2017, at least 525 jobs will be lost! In Bronx, HHH Home Care apparently lost its Home health Care Services contract and issued a WARN saying 72 people will become unemployed at the end of June. That Which cannot be Named refuses to stop Obama Care from shutting down and selling off its non-profit Hebrew Hospital Home of Westchester. The nursing home in Valhalla has lost more than $1-million after Obama care went into effect!
North Carolina: British empire legal drugs pusher GlaxoSmithKline eliminating 180 jobs in The Tar Heel State! Employees of Royal Home Care arrived to work to find a note stating “With the Medicaid reimbursement rate being inconsistence, another reimbursement rate cut at the beginning of this year, trying to meet everyone’s demand for a higher pay rate/salary, paying all employees in advance who came over from St. Mary’s and now being placed on a prepayment review by DMA due to the spike in volume of clients, Royal will no longer be able to take on anymore debts. Attempts to have the prepayment review status rescinded was unsuccessful.
We regret to inform you, due to all the above we were forced to close the agency effective immediately.” At least 24 employees never got their final paycheck, according to state labor administrators.
For the third year in a row Durham based legal drugs pusher Quintiles announced layoffs, this year at least 270 people will become jobless! New Obama Care taxes forcing Illinois based drug and medical device maker Hospria to shutdown their Clayton factory by the 2nd half of 2015, at least 250 jobs lost! Obama Care forcing Transylvania Regional Hospital to shutdown its labor and delivery services. Women in the area are complaining they must now travel out of the area to give birth. (What was that about Obama Care increasing access to healthcare?) Thinking about getting that plastic surgery? Lifestyle Lift suddenly began shutting down their clinics, with no notice or explanation. News reports say employees have been working without pay! One doctor blames capitalism: “The more it’s treated like a commodity, the more you’re going to see failures like this.”-Stephen Finical
Ohio: The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities announced plans to shutdown the Montgomery Developmental Center by 2017, at least 213 jobs lost! Apparently Obama Care is forcing them to consolidate operations. Owens Community College eliminated 50 occupied and vacant positions, as well as cut wages and salaries. They also proposed new taxes, blaming increased employment costs caused mainly by higher insurance and retirement rates mandated by Obama Care! The Youngstown Developmental Center is being shutdown by 2017, at least 500 jobs lost! It’s part of the massive shutdown being done by the Department of Developmental Disabilities, who blamed crashing government funding and a crashing population. An ‘elected’ representative was upset: “… I, intend, as a state legislator, to hold the governor accountable.”-Michele Lepore-Hagan
Oregon: Obama Care health insurance exchange operation Cover Oregon announced it will layoff its 62 employees by April, blaming the failure of the exchange program: “The state abandoned the exchange in April after deciding it was cheaper to switch to the federal site than to fix Cover Oregon……Lawmakers plan to pass a bill dissolving Cover Oregon….”-KTVZ
Pennsylvania: In Reading, British empire Canada based Surgical Specialties announced it will shutdown its ops in The Keystone State by December, at least 254 jobs be moved to Mexico (possibly to avoid the new Obama Care taxes on medical devices)! British empire United Kingdom based legal drugs maker GlaxoSmithKline continues to kill jobs, this time 150 people laid off in the Philadelphia region! In Canton, reports that after 40 years of doctor office operations Arnot Health Systems shut it down. Local news reports say administrators with Arnot Health Systems would not talk to them. Obama Care forcing 114 years old (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) hospital Penn Highlands Clearfield to layoff 30 people, eliminate 11 vacant jobs and cut hours for 50 employees. Administrators say they’re being forced to cut $3.1-million per year from their budget, pointing out that 65% of their customers are on Medicare or Medicaid, which are being drastically cut by Obama Care! In Saint Marys, hospital Penn Highlands Elk announced they will eliminate 43 jobs and reduce the hours for 25 employees. A local news report blamed “systemic changes implemented under the Affordable Care Act”. Hospital administrator Raymond A. Graeca said “We’re facing a very different healthcare delivery environment today than we were five years ago, and the American Hospital Association is projecting that the next five years alone will hold more change than we’ve seen in the past 75 years combined.” In Petersburg, legal drugs maker UniTao Pharmaceuticals shutdown without notice. Administrators actually said they won’t re-open until “business conditions improve”! In 2014, govn’a Terry McAuliffe claimed the drugs maker was going to employ 370 people and even gave UniTao $1-million in free taxpayer funded money! UniTao now says it won’t accept the money.
Rhode Island: Obama Care destroys 41 jobs at the Women & Infants Hospital. Work hours for other employees are being reduced. Local news reports referred to Obama Care as a “challenging healthcare environment”.
Tennessee: In Somerville, God refuses to stop Obama Care from forcing ‘his’ Methodist Healthcare from shutting down in March.
Texas: Obama Care forced Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) to kill off 260 jobs! Administrators blamed Obama Care for causing them to lose $70-million! Obama Care forced the El Paso Children’s Hospital to layoff five more people, and eliminated vacant positions. The Children’s Hospital also rents space to University Medical Center of El Paso, which reported that Obama Care has caused them to lose $60-million! As a result the University medical Center cannot pay the rent owed to Children’s Hospital. In Houston, for-profit University General Health System now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, this after shutting down their recently acquired Dallas hospital. News reports say many hospital employees never got their final paycheck!
Washington: After less than one year of operation Trios Medical Center now in big financial trouble no thanks to Obama Care (referred to as “the changing healthcare market”) with CEO Glen Marshall explaining that “The national trend has and will continue to be one of doing more with less. We have not been spared in that regard.” 40 employees laid off without notice and hospital assets are now being sold off. An unnamed employee told local news media “On Fridays, on paydays, people are frantically checking their bank accounts to see if they’ll get paid. It’s a real fear that 1,200 plus employees may not be getting a paycheck.”
Wyoming: The Wyoming Medical Center laid off five administrators, directly blaming Obama Care: “In response to rapid and challenging changes in the healthcare market, Wyoming Medical Center regretfully announced today the elimination of five leadership positions. Other management positions will be realigned in order to streamline operations and become more efficient in the way we deliver care.”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Obamacare widens the great income divide!
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“There’s no way they can propose this plan without threatening patient care!”