Here’s the last of just 25 possible questions about H.R.3200, AKA Obamacare, you can ask you Congressperson during the August recess.Question 21: Section 1131 proposes changes to the Social Security Act that pertain to payment to hospitals.  It would add this language: “(1) In General.-With respect to payment for discharges from an applicable hospital…in order to account for excess readmissions in the hospital, the Secretary shall reduce the payments that would otherwise be made to such hospital…”  SO, under Obamacare, will the medical decision to readmit a patient be made by a federal bureaucrat who stands between patient and doctor? Isn’t this what some have accused the insurance companies of doing? Question 22: Section 1156 is entitled: Limitations On Medicare Exceptions To The Prohibition On Certain Physician Referrals Made To Hospitals. It proposes another change to the Social Security Act. If enacted, it would require the...(Read Full Post)