The Individual is not the Priority

With less than four weeks away to the largest massive enrollment in this nation’s history, I decided to take to the street to get a firsthand account on how the local hospitals are approaching the October first enrollments.

Since the hospital cannot refuse anyone and have argued that they are at the frontline in providing care to the uninsured, one would assume that hospital administrators would be proactive and implement a policy to enroll everyone using their facilities. Since the hospital are where every uninsured supposing goes first.

The fact is mostly all the hospital visited in Palm Beach County personnel and human resource dept are not proactive and in most cases personnel are unaware of what will be occurring on October 1. Its business as usual and only one hospital was fully aware but enrollment was not a priority. Others have private outsources services to enroll the uninsured but are not aware of what is occurring or even that government certification is required.

The overall sense is with all the changes in regulation concerning healthcare, our healthcare provider’s hospital administrators have become desensitized to the whole individual healthcare issues.

It’s all about the funding from the government and state programs for services rendered. The individual healthcare enrollment does not provide the immediate revenue administrators are seeking. Therefore the individual enrollments is not a priority.