Catherine (Kat) Kirkland
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168 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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We can't wait because states have to plan.
Yeah.
to have some sort of budget certainty and how how are we gonna triage it, you know?
Right.
No, I I I feel exactly the same way.
I mean, you know, if you were in Baltimore, Baxter and I both caveatted that we are hospital attorneys.
So obviously we view everything under the gaze of what is best for a hospital.
But I couldn't agree more.
Um, you know, what what you see in a place like, you know, Alabama um is uh not an expansion state.
Is that instead of closing the doors, a hospital will close their emergency department because they cannot afford to operate it, because there could be a volume of Medicaid or uninsured folks coming in.
They're required under Imtala to treat these folks as they should be.
And so they can't afford to do it because the reimbursement is so poor or non existent that they will.
Mm-hmm.
To keep the doors open, to keep being a functioning hospital, have to close their emergency department.
And so I if you reduce, you know.
And so
Supplemental Medicaid payments, you reduce the mechanism that could finance those payments such that programs basically are performative and they don't actually pay out anything because you can't.
Um, then you really are gonna see a race to the bottom.
Sure.
Sure.
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