As Republicans Rail Against Obamacare, Tennessee Rural Hospitals Hit Hard Times
As Republicans Rail Against Obamacare, Tennessee Rural Hospitals Hit Hard Times
Rural hospitals in Tennessee have been laying off workers and cutting services “to the bone" thanks to our Republican supermajority’s refusal to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
That’s according to hospital administrators surveyed by The Tennessean and the Jackson Sun in some solid journalism over the weekend. Many rural hospitals are thinking about closing maternity wards and ending cancer treatment, among other services.
Contrast that bad news with this happy Washington Post story from Kentucky, where the Affordable Care Act is running smoothly and enrolling people right and left.
“Cashiers from the IGA grocery, clerks from the dollar store, workers from the lock factory, call-center agents, laid-off coal miners, KFC cooks"—all have been signing up at a clinic in Kentucky's Breathitt County, one of the nation's poorest.
“Woo-hoo! I can go to the doctor now?” one man asked. “I’m serious. I need to go.” One woman cried when she learned she now qualifies for Medicaid.
http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2013/12/02/as-republicans-rail-against-obamacare-tennessee-rural-hospitals-hit-hard-times
What could save Georgia’s closing hospitals
For the fourth time in two years, a rural hospital in Georgia is permanently closing its doors. The latest is Lower Oconee Community Hospital in southeast Georgia, which had financial problems it could not overcome.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government covers 100% of the costs of Medicaid expansion through 2016, and then 90% going forward. That can fairly be described as an amazing deal for states, a fact that even many conservative Republican governors – Arizona’s Jan Brewer, Ohio’s John Kasich, et al – decided they couldn’t responsibly turn down.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/what-could-save-georgias-closing-hospitals
Republicans would rather play Politics with peoples lives, the Propaganda Push and Hate Factor, rather then taking care of voters, how F’ing dumb are people voting against there own best interest?
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