ObamaCare Nightmare: Hospital will no longer deliver babies

WINDBER, Pa. (AP) — A southwestern Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can’t afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.

The Windber Medical Center, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is losing two obstetricians and two others are shifting their focus more to gynecology.

Hospital officials say the population of women of child-bearing age is dropping and that the number of births the hospital would be called upon to perform isn’t enough for it to provide the service in the face of lower reimbursements under the federal Affordable Care Act.

The hospital delivered about 200 babies each year since restarting its obstetrics program in 2005.

Officials aren’t sure how many jobs will be lost.

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1greeneyedgal says:

January 16, 2013 at 12:52 pm

Send those women to Planned Parenthood instead. I hear they get plenty of government funding.

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  January 16, 2013 at 12:57 pm
  
  Excellent point, Amanda.
  
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Laura Hammer says:

January 17, 2013 at 8:48 am

This is exactly how President Obama wants this to play out.

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