Dr. Karen Kinsell talks with Wayne Royal, director of emergency and 911 services in nearby Calhoun County, at her medical practice in Fort Gaines, Ga., on May 14.In rural Clay County, Georgia, access to health care is not always easy to come by. So when an area hospital that had long been on the financial brink closed in October because of the pandemic, Dr. Karen Kinsell, the only doctor in the county, was left with even fewer resources to treat her neighbors.
Republican lawmakers maintain that expansion is too heavy a financial burden for states to take on, even though the federal government will pay for 90 percent of it. There is also ideological opposition to the program, especially as it was formed under the umbrella of Obamacare.So far, 38 states have expanded Medicaid; Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming, Kansas, South Dakota and Wisconsin have not.
Most notably, the Trump White House pushed to provide waivers to allow states to enact work requirements to receive state Medicaid benefits, which no administration had done before and which Congress had voted down in 2017. Some criticize the Trump administration's oversight of health care coverage, especially during the pandemic.
As of October, Georgia was one of the states most recently to have adopted a variation of expansion with the approval of the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services. A man uses his phone to copy phone numbers posted on the locked doors of a Georgia Labor Department office in Norcross on May 7."As we've seen with many, many big policy changes, this is a lot more about politics than the actual data and policy, which the vast majority of Georgians and Americans agree on," said Laura Colbert, executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future.
The Biden administration also has to figure out how to contend with the lawsuits that have blocked four of the waivers.
Is there NOTHING nhe didn't Destroy?
The entire Trump admin was pure EVIL!
Healthcare should not be accessible only if you have a job. Healthcare is not a privilege. It's a basic human right. The Trump Administration really showed how little they cared about the people of this country.
This is great! I hope he left “booby traps” all over!
another trump legacy
Always blame the one before!
Some fights are for life or death. This is a fight for the healthy lives for Americans.
Of course b4 he left he booby trapped everything dah the American people know that the sad part is how easy it was HouseDemocrats POTUS VP still no help he left his Reps to continue CNN MSNBC ABC donlemon RepSwalwell SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer RepAdamSchiff AC360
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