Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Rural hospitals pressured to close as healthcare system changes

Rural hospitals pressured to close as healthcare system changes-reuters: Now the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is bringing additional pressure. Obamacare is designed to fold the poor and uninsured into the healthcare system, but changes in how the federal government pays for the disadvantaged are already pressuring the hospitals that cater to them, such as rural ones.