In many parts of Okiehomie, one must drive for more than an hour to reach an emergency room, or to deliver a baby
The density doesn't appear to be more or less than anywhere else in the country.
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Lots of Red State facilities to close.
So my understanding is the States were supposed to tax the hospitals evenly under Obamacare to get matching Federal funds..
So the States applied for what is called a "Uniformity Waiver". This allowed the State to charge only particular hospitals with the "tax", the tax was then Federal Government matched. So then the State would give the State "tax" back to the rural hospitals as "enhanced Medicaid reimbursement rates", and the State would use rest of the money else where.
IOW Those States that applied for the Waiver were taxing the rural areas, to pay for the urban areas. Private and suburban hospitals didn't have to pay the tax.
All the law did was close the waiver.
The States closing hospitals could have just had a fair tax on all its hospitals, but chose against that because .... idk why..
If you're really for socialized medicine, you should be ok with killing off the "Uniformity Waiver", and the States should apply the taxes to its hospitals evenly.
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Sure thing ModelS