Across the U.S., 113 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, research finds. And according to hospital administrators from Texas to Maine, adopting 'Medicare for All' would force even more rural hospitals to shut down. (hereandnow)
Adopting a single-payer government health care program that covers all Americans would force more rural hospitals to close, according to hospital administrators from Texas to Maine.
"Congressman Delaney is wrong — full stop," says Craig Garthwaite, a health care economist at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. On the other hand, he says about a quarter of his patients use private insurance, which pays well above $100 for the same X-ray. But predictions of further demise under a single-payer system may be overblown, according to research from the Congressional Budget Office."because they take care of so many Medicaid and Medicare and uninsured patients today," CBO's Jessica Banthin told lawmakers at a congressional hearing in May.
Supporters of Medicare for All also point out that reimbursement rates are negotiable when the law is written. But hospital executives are not convinced that politicians would vote to increase reimbursement rates.
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