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I friend of mine in Atlanta just told me the repuke governor and his pals have a solution to high health care costs and 600,000 uninsured poor people in his state that often are forced to use the emergency room. Just change the law and allow hospitals to refuse to treat anyone who doesn't have health insurance or the money to pay on the spot. It looks like their health care plan really is........
1 - Don't get sick.
2 - If you do, die quickly.
CatWoman
(79,301 posts)I caught the report on Rachel
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Georgians should take to the street.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Nathan Deal is encouraging Georgians to contact their Congressmen and Senators to lobby for the law to be changed.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)It's always been the Republican "solution" to healthcare - especially the "die quickly" part.
Now, they're just saying it out loud.
Do not forget....Nathan Deal, current Governor of Georgia, was a US Congressman from Georgia until 2010......and he's running for re-election to the Governor's mansion.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)That the idiot who suggested such a thing has to man the registration desk at the largest metro hospital in Atlanta for a week and turn away all the people who can't pay personally.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)the Governor himself.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Not ONE word in the local Georgia papers about Nathan Deal's little "solution."
Check out the AJC:
http://www.ajc.com/
Or the on air news channels, ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS
http://www.wsbtv.com/
http://www.11alive.com/
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) has a problem: rural hospitals keep closing, overwhelmed by financial troubles they cant 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 cant keep their doors open. These facilities have routinely covered low-income Georgians who dont have insurance, leading to facilities that cant 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 wont budge.
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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. Its provided life-saving care to countless people, but its 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.
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Uninsured Georgians in rural parts of the state have shown up for medical care at emergency rooms that cant 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.
Deals solution isnt to extend coverage to struggling families, thereby creating paying health care consumers for the hospitals; Deals solution is to make it easier for the hospitals to deny care to the struggling families.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/georgias-deal-tighten-er-access