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Chain email says Medicare won't pay for 'observational' stay in hospital due to Obamacare http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/25/chain-email/chain-email-says-medicare-wont-pay-observational-s/
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5:56 PM - 25 Jun 2015 · Details
"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."
Chain email on Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 in a chain email
A reader recently sent us a chain email we hadnt seen before. The lengthy missive, purportedly written by a "senior gentleman in Mesa, Arizona," details a visit to a hospital made contentious by Medicare payment rules. The anonymous author claims to have experienced "a medical situation that made it very clear that the Affordable Care Act is neither affordable, nor do they care."
The full email, which is lengthy, is accessible in its entirety here. But briefly,.................
...Our ruling
The chain email said that "under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."
Thats wrong. Medicare will cover the hospital stay, minus standard copayments and the like. Patients kept in the hospital under observation will not be able to receive Medicare reimbursements for follow-up care such as nursing-home stays, however.
Even more inaccurate is the charge that this policy stemmed from the Affordable Care Act. In reality, this stems from a separate policy decision and had nothing to do with Obamas law. The claim is not only ridiculous but also dangerous, by urging ailing patients
randys1
(16,286 posts)Remember, they HATE poor people and Black people and Women and so on.
You will find their think tanks doing as much harm as possible like making up shit like this
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Yeah, disregard this e-mail.