{"id":755,"date":"2008-08-13T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:37:00","slug":"health-blog-safety-net-frays-as-hospitals-shift-resources-from-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Health Blog : Safety Net Frays as Hospitals Shift Resources From Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2008\/08\/12\/safety-net-frays-as-hospitals-shift-resources-from-poor\/?mod=WSJBlog\">Health Blog : Safety Net Frays as Hospitals Shift Resources From Poor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An increase in the number of uninsured patients and competition from well-heeled hospitals is putting pressure on safety net hospitals to reduce services for the poor, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/hlthaff.27.5.w374\">published online today in the journal Health Affairs<\/a>. [cmhmd:requires subscription]<\/p>\n<p>The analysis, taken from the Center\u2019s ongoing survey of 12 metropolitan areas, comes as nonprofit hospitals are under increasing scrutiny for the amount of free care they provide for the poor. Some critics charge nonprofit hospitals enjoy billions of dollars in tax exemptions without providing offsetting amounts of charity care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em>And yet, if you ask the typical advocate for the status quo, we have no access problems, no rationing of healthcare here in the US.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><\/em><br \/><em>Go to the WSJ blog for the rest, it covers things nicely.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Blog : Safety Net Frays as Hospitals Shift Resources From Poor: &#8220;An increase in the number of uninsured patients and competition from well-heeled hospitals is putting pressure on safety &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health Blog : Safety Net Frays as Hospitals Shift Resources From Poor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-rationing-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}