ObamaCare: Another Bad Effect

ObamaCare is a spectacularly bad law, for many reasons. The topic de jour, however, is physician-owned hospitals. The new law doesn't force physician-owned hospitals to close, but it would obviously have liked to. What it DOES do is two major things. First, no new physician-owned hospitals may be opened. Second, and more to the point, any existing physician-owned hospitals are barred, as of the first of this year, from expanding at all.

What effect has this had? Apparently, construction has stopped at 45 physician-owned hospitals around the country. They WERE expanding, which would mean more patients could be treated, and quite probably treated better. But because of the new law, because of ObamaCare, the construction crews working on the expansions are out of work. Because of ObamaCare, 45 hospitals are forbidden to expand and grow, which means patients will receive less care.
http://www.heartland.org/full/29036/PhysicianOwned_Hospitals_Fire_Back_at_Obamacare_Restrictions.html

Section 6001 of the health care law effectively bans new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) from starting up, and it keeps existing ones from expanding. It has already halted the development of 24 new physician-owned hospitals and forced an additional 47 to struggle to meet the deadline to complete construction, according to the Physician Hospitals of America (PHA).

And in addition to the hospital expansions that ObamaCare halted, 24 new hospitals will now not open. Tough luck, patients.

In order to understand WHY Democrats did anything so monumentally stupid, you have to understand their mindset. Doctors are greedy and unscrupulous, so of course any doctor-owned hospital is the enemy of good care. So they did as much as they could to get rid of them.

How can ANYBODY defend this monstrosity of a law?