Copyrighted Image? DMCA | THE AUSTERITY HOUNDS AT WORK UNDERMINING THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE and misrepresenting the reality; "New York City's public hospital system is looking at a major cash squeeze within four years if federal cuts to hospitals serving large numbers of poor and uninsured patients take place as scheduled, according to a report by the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, to be released on Monday.Beginning in 2017, the federal government will begin cutting subsidies to those hospitals, based on the theory that since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which has insured millions of Americans, hospitals will no longer need the same level of subsidies for uncompensated care"...."But Mr. Stringer's report says that the city's hospital system will not benefit as much as expected from the Affordable Care Act insurance plans because..." |