Patrick Howley
The Daily Caller
8/8/2013
Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.
A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.
Charity for the uninsured is one of the factors that could discourage enrollment in Obamacare, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS.
“It requires tax-exempt hospitals to do a community needs survey and file additional paperwork with the IRS every three years. This is to prove that the charitable hospital is still needed in their geographical area — ‘needed’ as defined by Obamacare and overseen by IRS bureaucrats,” said John Kartch, spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform…
The article, with video of an interview with Dr. Ben Carson, continues at The Daily Caller.
Related: Not breaking news – Dems using Obamacare as pathway to single-payer
… Obama has been telling us that single payer was the goal since the time he was just a twinkle in the eye of the Chicago political machine…
…Anyone surprised that Democrats envision Obamacare morphing into single payer hasn’t been listening to what Democrats have been saying.
The collapse of the private insurance market under Obamacare isn’t a bug, it’s a feature…
Update: H/T The Kitchen Cabinet
From FreedomWorks:
Update 2: Sen. Vitter Blasts ‘Obnoxious’ Obamacare ‘Bailout’ For Congress, White House Staff
Senator David Vitter (R-La.) has urged President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to overturn a recent decision allowing members of Congress and their staffs to continue receiving a taxpayer-funded allowance to help cover their health insurance premiums, and even exempting some from enrolling in health care exchanges under the president’s health care law.Describing the “bailout” as “particularly offensive and obnoxious,” Vitter said Wednesday that the decision by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was “pulled out of thin air under intense and, sadly, bipartisan political pressure.”…
