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 12 months of 2016 there have been so many ObamaCare cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) more people in the United States die from opioid based drugs than from gunshot! And the majority of those opiod deaths are not from illegal drugs but from prescription drugs!
The pro-vaccination organization known as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is warning that the next ten years will experience escalating antibiotic resistant pandemics.
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, December 2016:
France based Sanofi eliminating 20% of its U.S. diabetes drug sales positions, blaming reduced payments caused by ObamaCare.
California: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Health from laying off 16 employees due to escalating costs of operations and reduced reimbursements caused by ObamaCare. Israeli owned drugs maker Teva issued yet another layoff WARN, this time 49 people in Corona losing their jobs by March 2017. Insurance company Transamerica issued a shutdown WARN for their Los Angeles office, 320 jobs lost by February 2017!
Connecticut: Drugs maker Bristol-Myers Squibb getting the hell outta Dodge, shutting down its Wallingford operations, 703 jobs lost by 2018! Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals shutting down their research lab in Ridgefield, 119 jobs lost by August 2017!
Delaware: British empire & Sweden owned drugs maker AstraZeneca laying off 120 people in Fairfax, as part of larger plans to kill-off 7-hundred jobs across the U.S. by the end of the 1st quarter 2017!
Georgia: Local taxpayer owned Memorial Hospital and Manor revealed that ObamaCare has caused the healthcare provider to lose $10-million USD since 2014. DeKalb Medical Center laid off 60 people and shutdown 80 vacant positions: “We haven’t had the financial performance we would hope for.”-Cheryl Iverson
Florida: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Health System-Florida Hospital Medical Group from eliminating 67 positions by outsourcing (contracting out) the jobs. Jackson Health System revealed they laid off 25 employees in November, due to “uncertainty about future government funding for uninsured patients”. Orlando based maker of eye surgery lasers, Lensar, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
Illinois: Baxter laid off 12 employees at its Bloomington hospital. In Collinsville, Ashmann’s Pharmacy shutdown after more than 55 years.
Iowa: Mercy Medical Center lost its surgical residency accreditation. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education claims there are ‘serious flaws’ in Mercy Medical’s training program. Central Iowa Healthcare now chapter 11 bankrupt busted saying they no longer have enough funding to provide “uninterrupted healthcare services”. Cedar Rapids based, but Netherlands owned, insurance company Transamerica eliminating 8-hundred jobs and shutting down dozens of offices across the U.S. in 2017!
Massachusetts: BioGen ending drugs production in The Bay State, killing off at least 2-hundred jobs through layoffs and transfers to other drugs making companies!
Minnesota: Hennepin County Medical Center eliminating 275 jobs in 2017 due to a reduced budget caused by ObamaCare! For 2016 Hennepin County Medical Center admin reported that ObamaCare, and a huge number of uninsured patients despite ObamaCare promising to insure everybody, caused the hospital to fall short of covering costs of operation by $11-million USD!
Mississippi: Mississippi Medical Center and North Mississippi Medical Center accused by Health & Human Services of overcharging patients on Medicare.
New Mexico: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center eliminating more than 5-hundred jobs in 2017! It’s blamed on a combination of state taxpayer funding cuts and ObamaCare.
New York: Medina Memorial Hospital shutting down their Intensive Care Unit (ICU), ten jobs lost due to low patient volume caused by ObamaCare. Upper Allegheny Health System laid off 18 people and shutdown 40 vacant positions, with administrators blaming their lack of “financial performance” on ObamaCare. ResCare Workforce Services issued a shutdown WARN for two locations, at least 40 jobs gone by the end of March 2017. In Brooklyn-NYC, Shiel Medical Laboratory issued a layoff WARN, ten jobs lost by March 2017. In Hempstead, the East Meadow Senior Center shutdown, supposedly because of disputes between the landlord and the city.
North Dakota: About 2-hundred people evacuated from the Altru Main Clinic when a support beam failed. The large clinic is now shutdown.
Pennsylvania: Ireland based drugs maker Endo International laid off 375 sales employees, as a result of releasing the company’s rights to a pain drug! Personal Touch Home Health Care issued a mass shutdown WARN, 150 jobs lost across four counties by the end of January 2017! Missouri based Express Scripts shutting down drugs making ops in Swatara, 97 jobs lost in 2017. Pocono Medical Center eliminating 61 nursing positions due to low patient volume caused by ObamaCare. Jennerstown Rural Health Clinic shutting down due to lack of doctors willing to work there. Canonsburg based Mylan Pharmaceuticals warning of layoffs in 2017, administrators actually admitted it was the result of their massive take overs of competition: “Since 2015, Mylan has made a number of significant acquisitions, and as part of the holistic, global integration of Mylan we are focusing on how to best optimize and maximize all of our assets, including reducing redundancy across our organization across all geographies.”
Texas: Texas Health Resources settle a dispute with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas over new ObamaCare insurance reimbursements, the hospital wanted a higher reimbursement rate, the settlement did not reveal how much of an increase they got. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center warning of layoffs and cutbacks in programs in 2017 due to $60.9-million in financial losses. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Good Shepherd Health System from laying off 50 people. CEO Steve Altmiller blamed ObamaCare saying “Like many other healthcare systems across the country, Good Shepherd Health System has been facing challenging times, resulting in lower overall patient census and financial losses.” Baptist Hospital shutting down its emergency room ops in Orange, by the end of January 2017. Administrators blame the Texas version of ObamaCare.
Wyoming: Saint John’s Medical Center gave patients who paid off their debt during December a 25% discount. Hospital admin claim 840 people took advantage of the deal!
ObamaCare destruction November 2016: “IF I HAVE TO PISS AND SHIT ON MYSELF, I WOULD RATHER BE DEAD!”