Low funding, incompetent politicians blocking more funding, anti-doctor laws worded so vaguely a doctor could accidentally end up in prison for providing women healthcare, etc.
this was corrected weeks ago, that bill had an unfortunate side effect. it was never intended to jail doctors for providing healthcare. stop trying to push this narrative.
“It was corrected” so the doctors were right to be worried?
Thanks for accidentally admitting they were right even though you’re desperately trying to pretend they shouldn’t have been.
No, doctors were not right to be worried. The bill in question had no intention of jailing doctors for prescribing birth control. The bill was made into a law on a Friday and the following Monday it was corrected.
The sky isn't falling. It was an accident and it was corrected. You would know this if you did a single shred of investigation rather than look at headline and get upset.
People are human. People make mistakes. People correct mistakes. There isn't a boogie man out to get you because you wear striped socks.
It doesn’t matter what the intent was, it would have jailed them.
Turns out nobody who writes those laws is competent at that job either, and certainly not competent enough to regulate doctors.
>It doesn’t matter what the intent was, it would have jailed them.
Which is precisely why it was immediately corrected.
This isn't a conspiracy. It's since been fixed. You're upset at nothing.
If those lawmakers are so incompetent, go do it yourself.
So the. They were correct to have a problem with it. You’re welcome.
“If those lawmakers are incompetent” they are, they proved it, just like their supporters proved they’re too stupid to evaluate a candidate properly.
Your definition of corrected is peculiar!
Providing arbitrary immunity against prosecution is not a correction. We can debate that but let’s assume I’m a doctor. Ain’t no way I would risk being prosecuted to the whims of politicians. Also it is a fact that not prosecuting a LAW does not make the act of not prosecuting law…it’s simply a policy. And a policy can change. Bottom line is anyone can bring suit and the court would have to disregard any claims to immunity.
This is a fact: the law still stands in Alabama. Now there is a bill in Alabama granting immunity. This is factually not the same as said law being “corrected” that codifies stored embryos are afforded the same legal protection as children under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act of 1872.
Bottom line is this: this is complete and utter foolishness. Very telling that anything had to be “corrected” in the first place and your nonchalant attitude about it. As if you ok with politicians and courts acting so haphazardly as to require corrections. lol.
This due to intentionally bad (I hope) writing. Same thing is happening in other red states. The laws are worded so vaguely and poorly, doctors aren't going to risk it. Too bad ALGOP isn't as good at their jobs as the doctors (or virtually anyone else).
No it isn't due to intentionally bad writing, it's because the boomers in charge of running Alabama are old as fuck and dumb
I don't understand why you people are so upset at this, it was an accident at best, a careless mistake at worst. It's since been corrected and NO ONE was jailed for it.
According to the Forbes survey, “Alabama employers cover the lowest percentage of employees’ annual health insurance premiums on average.”...and this is how you get crap coverage.
said no one.
We have two medical schools, and some of the best nursing programs in the country, but we have too many rural areas with no access to healthcare, and the hospitals we do have almost all run primarily on profit first, administration second, doctors 3rd, patients 4th, and everyone else last.
I think the rural argument doesn't really fly as every state in the country (outside the Northeast) have large rural areas.
I think the issue is the second part you mention, plus how politically AL is doing everything it can to ensure it can't get good medical care
People in rural areas choose to live there and refuse to leave. They also own the majority of the land in those rural areas and refuse to sell it. You can't legally build on their land nor can you force them to move.
Some people choose to live there.
Others don't have anywhere else to go. There are also just as many poor rural people who don't own huge swaths of land. Probably more so.
Where are they going to go? There aren't manufacturing jobs in cities anymore, and they don't always have skills needed for office work.
If only life was as easy for everyone as you seem to think it is.
There are people RIGHT NOW living in New York City that were born in Guinea. The great thing about the United States is that there's 50 different states to choose to live in and citizens are allowed to move around freely as they so choose.
People can move. Life is nothing more than consequences. Everyone makes choices, all choices have consequences.
The population living like this is TINY. You would know this if you've ever visited rural Alabama.
I have family from Rural Alabama. I grew up spending summers in Rural Alabama.
Thanks though.
And yes, people have immigrated here from other countries. That doesn't mean citizens in our own state don't deserve healthcare.
Like... Wtf even is your point?
My point is if people want to live in Pellham, where the closest OBGYN to them is DCH or UAB, then fucking let them. They know what they're getting into and they don't need people like you to tell them that they need to move the big city. They understand the risk and actively decide to live there regardless.
Let people live their lives, holy shit.
Yep. We will be retiring to Alabama because it's ideal (for us). Low population, low cost of living, low property cost, and taxes. We've dealt with living in the metro-Atlanta area for nearly our entire adult lives, and we're just sick of everything involved with it. And really, we're just sick of people in general.
We just want a bit of land with no neighbors in sight.
Even at the "second-worst", Alabama still scored an 87 out of 100 and I rarely take anything coming out of Forbes seriously.
That said, it could be due to:
* Alabama being mostly rural with only four metropolitan areas served by three region hospitals and one local one (UAB, HHS, MIHS, Baptist).
* Doctors tend to not only want to practice where the most patients are, but also where there's more than a MacDonald's, Waffle House, and Dollar General.
* Alabama's government decided not to expand medicaid so there is a huge number of working Alabamians that are in the gap between Medicaid and ACA coverage.
* Alabama legislature are constantly practicing medicine without a degree and interfering with the medical professionals ability to provide healthcare as needed.
Makes sense. Physicians would rather live in more urbanized areas to work for more pay, plus locals in rural areas don’t want outsiders from other states moving in and changing their way of life. Many rural hospitals and centers are closing and the states’ poverty levels contribute to people having shitty Medicaid the state provides, shitty employee insurance, or no insurance at all.
But hey… you’ve just ensured police bodycam footage isn’t public record and have been making librarians lives hell for a while now! Oh, and apparently you’ve removed monetary caps on political donations as long as the donation is from a ‘friend’. Good legislation there! Who cares that IVF is illegal now and abortion is under attack. We’ve screwed the libraries! Whoohoo.
A catastrophic mess in a state that should be doing well… except for the leadership not giving a shit.
I mean, really. Threatening to keep Biden off the ballot because the date of the DNC convention is after 8/15? The RNC convention has been after 8/15 every time this century. 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020… and this is the BS you pull on a sitting president? That’s the crap 5 year olds pull at recess.
Please Alabama… vote these fools out. I don’t care if you put in conservatives… just make them real conservatives, not these power hungry, fear mongering idiots. Please elect people who actually want to solve Alabama’s problems. Because they are getting worse every single year.
If I was a doctor the last place in the entire country I’d be willing to practice medicine would be Alabama. The general tenor towards science is downright antagonistic.
Realistically, the only good hospital in Alabama is UAB in Birmingham. With so many rural counties that I’m pretty sure that nobody in their right mind would want to live in if they had the ability not to, it’s understandable that even UAB couldn’t save us in the rankings.
Who’s last, Mississippi?
Georgia surprisingly. UAB has a charity care program too. As long as you make less than $50K a year, you can get discounts on medical procedures and checkups. People nder the FPL gets free care.
That’s shocking. I moved to Atlanta specifically for healthcare a year ago (HIV). Emory is one of the top facilities in the world, but health insurance over there is awful.
Georgia is worse than Alabama simply because approximately 57% of that state's population reside in the Atlanta metropolitan area (29 counties). That means remaining 130 counties are rural and have the same level of healthcare as rural Alabama.
yeah. grandview. 2-3 good privates in montgomery and mobile has a handful including usa. but lots of other medium sized facilities like dch in tuscaloosa that are fine hospitals.
Really need state leaders willing to look at the issues with the 31 Health Care Authorities in the state and CON laws. As a citizen, I have tried
https://apnews.com/article/open-records-government-transparency-lawsuits-sunshine-week-58becea049a4eb5fac688e8aee1aac0e
Moved to Huntsville 6 years ago and am still dumbfounded by lack of good choices - in the largest city in the state. I'm sure there are good docs here but they're so overbooked that they don't take new patients.
Eat shit, drink shit, and smoke shit. Not even the best run healthcare system in the world can undo what people willingly do to themselves every day. Life style will always beat medicine.
And I am in healthcare.
This is very misleading.
Alabama is VERY rural state. There are hundreds of miles of nothing. People live where there is nothing and have been for generations, they simply refuse to live anywhere near people.
These people also understand that they don't have access to medical care, that was part of the deal. They knew when they moved out to the middle of nowhere that they would be left alone and they would be on their own, that's how they choose to live.
There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Let people live how they want to live.
Most of the people that I know that live in those areas didn't move there, they were born there. A lot of those rural areas have declining populations because people are leaving when they find opportunities to. Some refuse to leave while others can't afford to leave. The cost of living is extremely low and they have low paying jobs.
This entire comment is 100% correct. Keep in mind, humans have free will. You cannot force someone to move closer to emergency services in the United States. If someone wants to live in bumfuck, Alabama, they are 100% in their right to do so.
There's not enough access to medical care in rural areas, not enough doctors and other staff. the medicare and medicade system is under funded in Alabama resulting in low income earners being removed from programs.
Crappies thing about it, to me, is the fact that hospitals / doctors/ insurance won't bill you til YEARS AFTER .
Just got a 800 dollar bill today from 2022.
I think that small suburban towns and cities are better. They offer the best of both worlds. Lower crime rates, more and better jobs, fewer big city issues like traffic, conveniences, emergency services and healthcare nearby.
Yup. I left the City out West to come out here to peace and quiet. 30 minute commute I see about 4 cars. No traffic. One traffic light. 😆 We have an okay selection of rural healthcare but I’m not surprised to see the State ranked so low.
Does Alabama have a Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Doctrine?: No. https://www.permithealth.com/post/the-corporate-practice-of-medicine-50-state-guide
https://tuscaloosathread.com/police-accuse-woman-of-practicing-medicine-without-license-at-tuscaloosa-clinic/
I don't think this is a major issue I'm Alabama but I do know "doctors" have been busted for practicing without a license
It is when private equity companies are running hospitals, “ Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Ban, which effectively prevents corporations and other artificial entities from practicing medicine, has been in place for over a century.”
Alabama is plagued by a single private insurance BXBS of Alabama a monopoly in the state. Keep reimbursement rate low and you have a hard time keeping and retaining good doctors.
Rural Alabama healthcare providers are so rare that the number of patients to doctors is 4x what it should be in those areas. Source: working with people trying to combat this problem.
But maga republicans have plenty of time for anti women and anti gay bills so they can virtue signal what good christians they are while simultaneously worshipping the great orange donald the adulterer and rapist.
The minimum income to qualify for Medicaid is ridiculously low. It’s both a disincentive to work and disqualifies tens of thousands of working people from Medicaid.
ETA: well, shit… I meant “maximum income”.
Our politicians keep voting to stop medicaid expansion. We could get a lot of help, but our uneducated voting block keeps these corrupt pieces of shit in office.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243825508/why-alabama-refuses-to-expand-medicaid-under-the-affordable-care-act#:~:text=Transcript-,As%20rural%20hospitals%20struggle%20to%20stay%20open%2C%20Alabama%20politicians%20remain,Act%2C%20also%20known%20as%20Obamacare.
Alabama is last or close to last in everything because of our elected officials. Vote these MAGA dickheads and cocksuckers out of office. We have had republican politicians running this state for 30+ years, and nothing has gotten better for our state. That is the sole reason. Republicans do not want to help people. They get their pet projects and their kickbacks and vote against anything that could help the people of this state. Stop listening to this bullshit they keep talking about, vote them out. Get someone respected in your community to run, as a Democrat, Independent, fucking make a new party just never vote R(traitor).
Yes....blame the poor and unhealthy for mismanaging the system. Because it is the poor who decide what Medicaid will pay.
Alabama's Medicaid system is also ranked the 2nd worst in the Nation, behind Louisiana. 99% of that is because it's funding is so low, which means that we offer less services under Medicaid, and we are doing nothing to prevent rural hospitals from closing.
I think they’re saying the opposite. The upper limit at which people can qualify for Medicaid is so low that people are forced to choose to have healthcare or a job.
Because if they can’t get a job that will pay for healthcare then they’re working, likely still unable to pay for basic needs. But also considered to be making too much to get health coverage.
So if you have any actual health issues you can’t afford to work because the healthcare you would loose is so so much more valuable, including potentially literally lifesaving, than the 6 3.5 hour shifts a week at minimum wage would be.
idk, healthcare providers like to get paid for their work, so it would seem there is a direct correlation. Hard to attract great providers when most of the state is poor and cant get affordable health insurance and the state is not helping those in need.
Low funding, incompetent politicians blocking more funding, anti-doctor laws worded so vaguely a doctor could accidentally end up in prison for providing women healthcare, etc.
this was corrected weeks ago, that bill had an unfortunate side effect. it was never intended to jail doctors for providing healthcare. stop trying to push this narrative.
“It was corrected” so the doctors were right to be worried? Thanks for accidentally admitting they were right even though you’re desperately trying to pretend they shouldn’t have been.
No, doctors were not right to be worried. The bill in question had no intention of jailing doctors for prescribing birth control. The bill was made into a law on a Friday and the following Monday it was corrected. The sky isn't falling. It was an accident and it was corrected. You would know this if you did a single shred of investigation rather than look at headline and get upset. People are human. People make mistakes. People correct mistakes. There isn't a boogie man out to get you because you wear striped socks.
It doesn’t matter what the intent was, it would have jailed them. Turns out nobody who writes those laws is competent at that job either, and certainly not competent enough to regulate doctors.
>It doesn’t matter what the intent was, it would have jailed them. Which is precisely why it was immediately corrected. This isn't a conspiracy. It's since been fixed. You're upset at nothing. If those lawmakers are so incompetent, go do it yourself.
So the. They were correct to have a problem with it. You’re welcome. “If those lawmakers are incompetent” they are, they proved it, just like their supporters proved they’re too stupid to evaluate a candidate properly.
bro
Your definition of corrected is peculiar! Providing arbitrary immunity against prosecution is not a correction. We can debate that but let’s assume I’m a doctor. Ain’t no way I would risk being prosecuted to the whims of politicians. Also it is a fact that not prosecuting a LAW does not make the act of not prosecuting law…it’s simply a policy. And a policy can change. Bottom line is anyone can bring suit and the court would have to disregard any claims to immunity. This is a fact: the law still stands in Alabama. Now there is a bill in Alabama granting immunity. This is factually not the same as said law being “corrected” that codifies stored embryos are afforded the same legal protection as children under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act of 1872. Bottom line is this: this is complete and utter foolishness. Very telling that anything had to be “corrected” in the first place and your nonchalant attitude about it. As if you ok with politicians and courts acting so haphazardly as to require corrections. lol.
This due to intentionally bad (I hope) writing. Same thing is happening in other red states. The laws are worded so vaguely and poorly, doctors aren't going to risk it. Too bad ALGOP isn't as good at their jobs as the doctors (or virtually anyone else).
No it isn't due to intentionally bad writing, it's because the boomers in charge of running Alabama are old as fuck and dumb I don't understand why you people are so upset at this, it was an accident at best, a careless mistake at worst. It's since been corrected and NO ONE was jailed for it.
This is literally the worst understanding of deep systemic problems with the state-created limits to good healthcare provision
In what way is my comment incorrect
It's unfortunate that Alabama doesn't have the same zeal for good healthcare as it does for football. :(
We didn't expand Medicaid and the good doctors that are here are hard to find. Hospitals closing. It's a total mess.
.. and the article didn't even give credit to the state that beat us out.. maybe Ole Miss?..
Negative. It’s Georgia this time.
I'm sorry..
Remember this next time we put Mee Maw in again!! Time to put the whole administration on the porch! Alabama Strong.
According to the Forbes survey, “Alabama employers cover the lowest percentage of employees’ annual health insurance premiums on average.”...and this is how you get crap coverage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama/s/ITOWTVPdwd
I think the rural argument doesn't really fly as every state in the country (outside the Northeast) have large rural areas. I think the issue is the second part you mention, plus how politically AL is doing everything it can to ensure it can't get good medical care
People in rural areas choose to live there and refuse to leave. They also own the majority of the land in those rural areas and refuse to sell it. You can't legally build on their land nor can you force them to move.
Some people choose to live there. Others don't have anywhere else to go. There are also just as many poor rural people who don't own huge swaths of land. Probably more so. Where are they going to go? There aren't manufacturing jobs in cities anymore, and they don't always have skills needed for office work. If only life was as easy for everyone as you seem to think it is.
There are people RIGHT NOW living in New York City that were born in Guinea. The great thing about the United States is that there's 50 different states to choose to live in and citizens are allowed to move around freely as they so choose. People can move. Life is nothing more than consequences. Everyone makes choices, all choices have consequences. The population living like this is TINY. You would know this if you've ever visited rural Alabama.
I have family from Rural Alabama. I grew up spending summers in Rural Alabama. Thanks though. And yes, people have immigrated here from other countries. That doesn't mean citizens in our own state don't deserve healthcare. Like... Wtf even is your point?
My point is if people want to live in Pellham, where the closest OBGYN to them is DCH or UAB, then fucking let them. They know what they're getting into and they don't need people like you to tell them that they need to move the big city. They understand the risk and actively decide to live there regardless. Let people live their lives, holy shit.
Oh wait. You're calling Pelham rural. Ok. Yeah. Pelham is a big time city compared to where I'm talking about.
Pelham is a suburb of birmingham, not a rural town. Of course, people go to Uab from there. You do not know what you are talking about.
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You never actually been to Pelham.
Lmao
Yep. We will be retiring to Alabama because it's ideal (for us). Low population, low cost of living, low property cost, and taxes. We've dealt with living in the metro-Atlanta area for nearly our entire adult lives, and we're just sick of everything involved with it. And really, we're just sick of people in general. We just want a bit of land with no neighbors in sight.
Are you from Alabama?
There are two allopathic and two osteopathic medical schools in Alabama.
No surprise that when the army is training on providing medical aid in devastated areas, they just come to Alabama.
But we are well protected from naughty books in the library and scary drag queens.
Yeah-ah, I can I get an Ay-men from the congregation? /s
The politicians and business owners do not care of we live or die. It is right to rebel against them.
Even at the "second-worst", Alabama still scored an 87 out of 100 and I rarely take anything coming out of Forbes seriously. That said, it could be due to: * Alabama being mostly rural with only four metropolitan areas served by three region hospitals and one local one (UAB, HHS, MIHS, Baptist). * Doctors tend to not only want to practice where the most patients are, but also where there's more than a MacDonald's, Waffle House, and Dollar General. * Alabama's government decided not to expand medicaid so there is a huge number of working Alabamians that are in the gap between Medicaid and ACA coverage. * Alabama legislature are constantly practicing medicine without a degree and interfering with the medical professionals ability to provide healthcare as needed.
Higher scores are worse on this measure.
Damn it. Next thing you'll tell me is that I'm not that good at golf.
everything else u said was pretty much valid tho
Same goes with golf, lower number the better. Do with that as you will.
Makes sense. Physicians would rather live in more urbanized areas to work for more pay, plus locals in rural areas don’t want outsiders from other states moving in and changing their way of life. Many rural hospitals and centers are closing and the states’ poverty levels contribute to people having shitty Medicaid the state provides, shitty employee insurance, or no insurance at all.
But hey… you’ve just ensured police bodycam footage isn’t public record and have been making librarians lives hell for a while now! Oh, and apparently you’ve removed monetary caps on political donations as long as the donation is from a ‘friend’. Good legislation there! Who cares that IVF is illegal now and abortion is under attack. We’ve screwed the libraries! Whoohoo. A catastrophic mess in a state that should be doing well… except for the leadership not giving a shit. I mean, really. Threatening to keep Biden off the ballot because the date of the DNC convention is after 8/15? The RNC convention has been after 8/15 every time this century. 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020… and this is the BS you pull on a sitting president? That’s the crap 5 year olds pull at recess. Please Alabama… vote these fools out. I don’t care if you put in conservatives… just make them real conservatives, not these power hungry, fear mongering idiots. Please elect people who actually want to solve Alabama’s problems. Because they are getting worse every single year.
If I was a doctor the last place in the entire country I’d be willing to practice medicine would be Alabama. The general tenor towards science is downright antagonistic.
Has praying the illnesses away not worked? Strange!
Realistically, the only good hospital in Alabama is UAB in Birmingham. With so many rural counties that I’m pretty sure that nobody in their right mind would want to live in if they had the ability not to, it’s understandable that even UAB couldn’t save us in the rankings. Who’s last, Mississippi?
Georgia surprisingly. UAB has a charity care program too. As long as you make less than $50K a year, you can get discounts on medical procedures and checkups. People nder the FPL gets free care.
That’s shocking. I moved to Atlanta specifically for healthcare a year ago (HIV). Emory is one of the top facilities in the world, but health insurance over there is awful.
Georgia is worse than Alabama simply because approximately 57% of that state's population reside in the Atlanta metropolitan area (29 counties). That means remaining 130 counties are rural and have the same level of healthcare as rural Alabama.
North Carolina entered the chat
not even close to being the only good hospital
What else is there? Brookwood seems to have fallen off a cliff. Maybe St. Vincent’s?
yeah. grandview. 2-3 good privates in montgomery and mobile has a handful including usa. but lots of other medium sized facilities like dch in tuscaloosa that are fine hospitals.
Really need state leaders willing to look at the issues with the 31 Health Care Authorities in the state and CON laws. As a citizen, I have tried https://apnews.com/article/open-records-government-transparency-lawsuits-sunshine-week-58becea049a4eb5fac688e8aee1aac0e
With the shit they pull, it figures. Who’d they beat? Who’s last?
Arkansas. Hold my sister.
Moved to Huntsville 6 years ago and am still dumbfounded by lack of good choices - in the largest city in the state. I'm sure there are good docs here but they're so overbooked that they don't take new patients.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama/s/yu6SGWlP4r
Forgot about that post, thx.
Was that score on a curve?
Eat shit, drink shit, and smoke shit. Not even the best run healthcare system in the world can undo what people willingly do to themselves every day. Life style will always beat medicine. And I am in healthcare.
Because things like car accidents, injuries, infections, cancer or congenital diseases are choices that don't require medical assistance right?
Heart disease, smoking, and diabetes make up 75% of deaths. All driven by lifestyle.
So 75% of the people that go to the hospital die from lifestyle choices? Also diabetes can be congenital . No sick kids or car accidents?
Yes everyone dies.
Well, I am shocked! Shocked, I tell ye!
Who cares? Gotta make time for being angry minorities exist /s
This is very misleading. Alabama is VERY rural state. There are hundreds of miles of nothing. People live where there is nothing and have been for generations, they simply refuse to live anywhere near people. These people also understand that they don't have access to medical care, that was part of the deal. They knew when they moved out to the middle of nowhere that they would be left alone and they would be on their own, that's how they choose to live. There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Let people live how they want to live.
Most of the people that I know that live in those areas didn't move there, they were born there. A lot of those rural areas have declining populations because people are leaving when they find opportunities to. Some refuse to leave while others can't afford to leave. The cost of living is extremely low and they have low paying jobs.
This entire comment is 100% correct. Keep in mind, humans have free will. You cannot force someone to move closer to emergency services in the United States. If someone wants to live in bumfuck, Alabama, they are 100% in their right to do so.
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was this ever a question lol
Is it not enough or the practitioners are bad?
There's not enough access to medical care in rural areas, not enough doctors and other staff. the medicare and medicade system is under funded in Alabama resulting in low income earners being removed from programs.
Crappies thing about it, to me, is the fact that hospitals / doctors/ insurance won't bill you til YEARS AFTER . Just got a 800 dollar bill today from 2022.
It’s great for poor families that conservatives control the state. Sure is.
Health care or insurance paying?
It’s bad here for sure, especially rural, but is there anywhere in the USA it’s actually good and affordable? 🤣
I think that small suburban towns and cities are better. They offer the best of both worlds. Lower crime rates, more and better jobs, fewer big city issues like traffic, conveniences, emergency services and healthcare nearby.
Yup. I left the City out West to come out here to peace and quiet. 30 minute commute I see about 4 cars. No traffic. One traffic light. 😆 We have an okay selection of rural healthcare but I’m not surprised to see the State ranked so low.
Time to clean up our administration!! Put everyone on the porch. Start from top Mee Maw! Alabama Strong!!!
You get what you vote for.
Does Alabama have a Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Doctrine?: No. https://www.permithealth.com/post/the-corporate-practice-of-medicine-50-state-guide
https://tuscaloosathread.com/police-accuse-woman-of-practicing-medicine-without-license-at-tuscaloosa-clinic/ I don't think this is a major issue I'm Alabama but I do know "doctors" have been busted for practicing without a license
It is when private equity companies are running hospitals, “ Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Ban, which effectively prevents corporations and other artificial entities from practicing medicine, has been in place for over a century.”
Alabama is plagued by a single private insurance BXBS of Alabama a monopoly in the state. Keep reimbursement rate low and you have a hard time keeping and retaining good doctors.
Rural Alabama healthcare providers are so rare that the number of patients to doctors is 4x what it should be in those areas. Source: working with people trying to combat this problem.
Oh I bet it has everything to do with stopping Medicaid expansion and banning abortion, but the people who voted for both will never admit that…
Not really. Alabama has always been notorious for not having good access to healthcare and poor health overall compared to the rest of the country.
It gets worse (and not better) when you ban access to healthcare and/or make it more expensive for the poorest people in an already very poor state.
But maga republicans have plenty of time for anti women and anti gay bills so they can virtue signal what good christians they are while simultaneously worshipping the great orange donald the adulterer and rapist.
The minimum income to qualify for Medicaid is ridiculously low. It’s both a disincentive to work and disqualifies tens of thousands of working people from Medicaid. ETA: well, shit… I meant “maximum income”.
Our politicians keep voting to stop medicaid expansion. We could get a lot of help, but our uneducated voting block keeps these corrupt pieces of shit in office. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243825508/why-alabama-refuses-to-expand-medicaid-under-the-affordable-care-act#:~:text=Transcript-,As%20rural%20hospitals%20struggle%20to%20stay%20open%2C%20Alabama%20politicians%20remain,Act%2C%20also%20known%20as%20Obamacare. Alabama is last or close to last in everything because of our elected officials. Vote these MAGA dickheads and cocksuckers out of office. We have had republican politicians running this state for 30+ years, and nothing has gotten better for our state. That is the sole reason. Republicans do not want to help people. They get their pet projects and their kickbacks and vote against anything that could help the people of this state. Stop listening to this bullshit they keep talking about, vote them out. Get someone respected in your community to run, as a Democrat, Independent, fucking make a new party just never vote R(traitor).
Yes....blame the poor and unhealthy for mismanaging the system. Because it is the poor who decide what Medicaid will pay. Alabama's Medicaid system is also ranked the 2nd worst in the Nation, behind Louisiana. 99% of that is because it's funding is so low, which means that we offer less services under Medicaid, and we are doing nothing to prevent rural hospitals from closing.
I think they’re saying the opposite. The upper limit at which people can qualify for Medicaid is so low that people are forced to choose to have healthcare or a job. Because if they can’t get a job that will pay for healthcare then they’re working, likely still unable to pay for basic needs. But also considered to be making too much to get health coverage. So if you have any actual health issues you can’t afford to work because the healthcare you would loose is so so much more valuable, including potentially literally lifesaving, than the 6 3.5 hour shifts a week at minimum wage would be.
Yes, I see that angle now. Thank you.
That has little to do with Alabama's healthcare system.
idk, healthcare providers like to get paid for their work, so it would seem there is a direct correlation. Hard to attract great providers when most of the state is poor and cant get affordable health insurance and the state is not helping those in need.
An opinion this bad should land you in jail