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Apocalypse Now
Posted on February 27, 2014 by MalloyProducer • 0 Comments
We love Tom Dispatch and hope you visit there often. Ira Chernus, a regular Tom Dispatch contributor and religious scholar/historian, has a wonderful piece up today about the many apocalypses we face in these times. Please give it a read and then join Mike tonight for a discussion. Here’s a sample:
Wherever we Americans look, the threat of apocalypse stares back at us.
Two clouds of genuine doom still darken our world: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction. If they got the urgent action they deserve, they would be at the top of our political priority list.
But they have a hard time holding our attention, crowded out as they are by a host of new perils also labeled “apocalyptic”: mounting federal debt, the government’s plan to take away our guns, corporate control of the Internet, the Comcast-Time Warner mergerocalypse, Beijing’s pollution airpocalypse, the Americansnowpocalypse, not to speak of earthquakes and plagues. The list of topics, thrown at us with abandon from the political right, left, and center, just keeps growing.
Good stuff there – only gets better.
In our ongoing discussion of backward state legislators and governors, Georgia’s very own Nathan Deal has a plan to reduce the cost of emergency room visits. It’s simple, really – he wants to limit access to them by the poor. MSNBC reports:
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) has a problem: rural hospitals keep closing, overwhelmed by financial troubles they can’t solve on their own. The obvious solution – accepting Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act – is the one thing Deal refuses to even consider.
There is no great mystery here as to why the rural hospitals can’t keep their doors open. These facilities have routinely covered low-income Georgians who don’t have insurance, leading to facilities that can’t pay their bills. Medicaid expansion would “help rural hospitals by turning many of their uninsured patients into paying patients,” but the governor and GOP state policymakers won’t budge.
But don’t worry, Deal is ready to think outside the box.
Gov. Nathan Deal has often called on Congress to reconsider the Affordable Care Act. But on Monday evening, he pushed his former Washington colleagues to revisit a separate health care law that fewer politicians openly critique.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is a 1986 law that requires hospitals to provide emergency health care treatment to anyone who needs it, regardless of citizenship or their ability to pay. It’s provided life-saving care to countless people, but it’s also strained hospital resources and turned emergency rooms into the first stop, instead of a last resort, for some.
“If they really want to get serious about lowering the cost of health care in this country, [federal policymakers] would revisit another federal statute that has been there for a long time,” Deal told a crowd of dozens at a University of Georgia political science alumni gathering.
Let this one roll around in your mind for a moment.
Uninsured Georgians in rural parts of the state have shown up for medical care at emergency rooms that can’t turn them away. The hospitals provide care, as required by law, but the financial strain ultimately proves to be too great a burden for some facilities.
Deal’s solution isn’t to extend coverage to struggling families, thereby creating paying health care consumers for the hospitals; Deal’s solution is to make it easier for the hospitals to deny care to the struggling families.
In his remarks this week, the Georgia Republican went on to say, “I think we should be able in this passage of time to figure out ways to deal with those situations but not have the excessive costs associated with unnecessary visits to the emergency room.”
Well, if you expand access to insurance and guarantee easy access to preventive care, unnecessary visits to the emergency room would go down. Too bad Deal opposes expanded access to insurance and guaranteeing easy access to preventive care.
To be sure, I should emphasize that as a matter of hospital financing, Deal’s argument is not without merit – if medical facilities were able to simply deny care to the uninsured, those hospitals would definitely save lots of money.
But on the other hand, people would die from treatable ailments, paying with their life because they had the nerve to be poor.
Wonder how ol’ Nate would like it if he doubled over with chest pains on the golf course and was denied medical services at an ER because he left his insurance card at home? Universal health care – like they enjoy in virtually every free developed nation on earth – would eliminate all these issues. No one would have to prove their financial worthiness before receiving top-notch medical care. Rich and poor alike would have equal access to medical treatments and preventive care. And it would be cheaper.
Naaaawwwww, can’t have that. Sounds like Socialism.
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The TN Federation of Democratic Women's convention is in Chattanooga this year and it's time to be a busy bee! Lots to do!
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Hoping that you're well! The last time our women's club had the convention here it was the most successful in the history of the TN Federation. We'll see how this one goes!
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