Top US hospital announces layoffs due to Obamacare

  We have seen several trends begin to emerge as Obamacare nears full implementation: Companies are laying off employees to avoid the employer mandate, people are having their hours cut to less than 30 a week so that employers can avoid the employer mandate, and people who like their insurance are losing it as they are being pushed into more expensive plans they cannot afford. People are working less hours (if they are working at all) and yet they are mandated to buy more expensive insurance, from a website which does not work, that they cannot afford or else face the wrath of the IRS, and this is being trumpeted as an improvement?

  This is not the end of the Obamcare fallout, but rather the beginning. We are also seeing hospitals cut back as they try to cope with the increasing costs of doing business in the new healthcare marketplace.

  The Cleveland Clinic, which according to this article, is one of the top hospitals in the nation, is the latest hospital to announce layoffs and cutbacks partially due to Obamacare:

The Cleveland Clinic, which is ranked among the top four U.S. hospitals, is making layoffs and cutting its budget more than $100 million as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act, the Daily Caller has learned.

“The cuts for 2014, about half of those are related to the Affordable Care Act…We anticipate a reduction in workforce,” Cleveland Clinic executive director of communications Eileen Sheil said in an interview with TheDC.

The Cleveland Clinic is reducing its 2014 budget by $330 million.

  We can rest assured that if this is happening to one of the top hospitals in the nation that it will happen to others–this will not be an isolated example and in fact will be yet another trend. If this can happen to top hospitals what will the effect be on the lesser hospitals people rely on on a daily basis?  With less employees in the healthcare industry, and with less services being provided by the top hospitals in the nation are we to believe there will not be healthcare rationing as the federal government seeks to lower the costs of healthcare goods and services?

  Someone needs to explain to this poor plebeian how the rising costs of insurance under Obamacare as people are pushed out of their plans, coupled with a loss of hours and now hospitals cutting back on staff and services, can possibly be a better system than the one we had in place before Barack Obama and the Democrats dismantled it.

  This is just the beginning and we are already seeing the disastrous results of a bill which nobody thought was important enough to read before they shoved it down our throats. But cheer up, this is the golden age for it is all downhill from here.