Did a #Georgia #Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save #AmberThurman? A #Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.
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Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for emergency care under the state’s #abortion ban. Sen. Ron Wyden demanded records his committee could review to determine whether the hospital violated the law. “It’s not even a question,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/amber-thurman-georgia-abortion-wyden-emtala
#News #Law #AbortionBan #EMTALA #Medicare #Healthcare #Health #Pregnancy #RoeVWade #SupremeCourt
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I think this article frames the wrong perp.Hospitals and their legal staff are highly risk averse, and are just following what they understand to be the law, and will tend to err on the side of caution - the more vague and the more threatening a law is, the more hospitals will hedge to be safe.
The entities to blame here are the lawmakers and governor, who knew how to make hospitals react like this
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The Hill did a ridiculous hit piece on this.
They made a sort of decent point but it was obscured with a lot of bullshit. And ad hoinem nonsense@[email protected] Denying Medicare funds to hospitals who break federal law provides a stronger incentive for Hospitals to observe federal law than any moral argument about saving lives. Well done, Ron Wyden.
@[email protected] They’re being put in an untenable position. Is it any wonder that OB/GYNs are abandoning those states?
