Under Obamacare Clinic Forced To Shut Down

According to a report filed by Dylan Scott at 'TPM' the 'RotaCare Tacoma' free clinic in Washington state was forced to shut down at the end of January because of Obamacare.

Why?
Because they were set up only to serve patients with no healthcare coverage. Right after Obamacare kicked in their 150 or so patients were no longer uninsured. So in essence they no longer had any patients.

This was not the only one. The same is being reported in Mena, Arkansas-- "We’ve gone from seeing around 300 people a month on a regular basis, but as people were enrolling in Obamacare, the numbers we were seeing have dropped. We were down to 80 people that came through the medical clinic in February, all the way down to three people at the medical clinic in March. Our services won’t be needed anymore, and this will conclude our mission.”

While this comes a good news in some states, the picture isn't so rosy for other ones that rejected the new plan's Medicaid expansions. In November 2013 Bloomberg reported "at least five public hospitals closed this year (2013) and many more are scaling back services, mostly in states where Medicaid wasn’t expanded."


Is the new Health Care Affordability Act perfect?

No, but there is cause for optimism when we read about some of the good things happening because of it. I tend to think of this as a work in progress. There's never been a piece of software, an invention nor first time idea that didn't start out rough around the edges.

Just because the first seed planted may not yield optimum results, there's no reason not to keep trying to perfect something. It was that way for the Wright brothers and Graham Bell. Just as it was for far too many governments to mention that were setup and failed throughout history.

Although the United States itself has been around for 238 years it too still remains far from perfect. It too is still a work in progress. For this reason I see no reason to scrap either the United States constitution nor the healthcare plan.

Speaking towards the future going forward. Both will do just fine with the right kind of tweaking and adapting laws to make things work better.


"A failure is not always a mistake,
it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances.
The real mistake is to stop trying."
~ B. F. Skinner ~