The largest employer in Northern Ohio is forced to either lay off or offer early retirement to thousands of workers...

Why?...

You know "why"...

Layoffs coming to Cleveland Clinic in plan to reduce budget by $330 million

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Obamacare Isn't Really Taking Away Jobs: Cleveland Clinic Edition - David A. Graham - The Atlantic

Think of it this way: These are all steps that the Cleveland Clinic was likely to take, but Obamacare implementation is acting as a catalyst, spurring the clinic to adopt them now rather than on a slower timeline.

This isn't to absolve the ACA of any role in the cuts at all. The revenue reduction because of the law is real. Pretty much everyone agrees that the spiraling costs of health care in the U.S. threaten — through Medicaid and Medicare — the nation's long-term fiscal health.

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Is the clinic federally funded? because otherwise I don't see how the feds could have direct input in their budget.

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So fix the problem by solving it at it's source - NOT ENOUGH HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. Increase the supply and competition will bring costs down. But what the ACA is doing is DECREASING THE SUPPLY OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. This will mean the healthcare professionals who choose not to accept "ACA" patients will be increasing the rates they charge because there will be less competition. By forcing cuts ahead of the market, all you do is push out people and lower accessibility to healthcare. We need MORE healthcare professionals, not less. If you want the gov't to do something, then do something along the lines of what I've proposed for YEARS: Set up a program that pays for healthcare professionals education with a stipulation that they repay the cost by working where the gov't tells them to for period of time equivalent to their education. Have them do this after they've in practice long enough to be proficient. If they choose not to work where they are told, they get hit with the bill for their education at 15% APR. Do this and you'll increase the supply of healthcare professionals, which will lower the cost of healthcare and increase it's availability.

See, that's called SOLVING A PROBLEM, instead of just throwing feel-good band-aids at it.

Lets be honest on both side, its probably a little bit Affordable Health Care Act, and a little bit crapy economy with a dash of a messed up healthcare system. There has been no real reform, and no real recovery to our economy because nether side can stop being a bloviating douchebag long enough to really fix anything.

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Good discussion by everyone. Thanks.

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