A North Carolina mayor on Sunday was just a few miles away from finishing his 273-mile walk to Washington to draw attention to the closing of his small town’s local hospital and the plights of other rural facilities caught in financial bind created largely by ObamaCare, a changing economy and less federal funding.
“We’re almost there,” Belhaven Mayor Adam O’Neal, a Republican, said as he reached northern Virginia ahead of an approaching thunderstorm. “We’re going to make it.”
The mayor and others argue that an increasing number of small, rural hospitals have been shuttered since ObamaCare was signed into law in 2012.
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If he actually gets to talk to anyone in Obama's outfit he'll be damned lucky if they don't seize the opportunity to turn that hospital into a facility for illegals. Obamacare or not that hospital is doomed to fail. It's in an isolated small town and it's sitting on the bank of the Pamlico sound, just a few feet above sea level. The county it's in would be much better off buying a couple of air ambulances and hiring some personnel to operate them but they can't afford to do that any more than they can afford to run a hospital. They are about 30 minutes air time from one trauma center and about 1 hour from another one. There is a hospital about 25 miles from them.
ReplyDeletehe'll be damned lucky if they don't seize the opportunity to turn that hospital into a facility for illegals.
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