friend of the author salman rushdie. that does it for me, thanks for watching the cross connection. s fo watching the cross connection. erekat morning, everyone welcome to the cross connection, i m tiffany cross. 45 minutes 99 problems and the truth is definitely. one mussolini claims he had a quote standing order to declassify documents that were removed from the oval office addicted to the residence. 18 former top japanese including two former chief of staff tells cnn that that is complete fiction. quote ridiculous and plain quotes bs. that is not great news for the velveeta voldemort to s former lawyer rudy giuliani claimed he took the sensitive documents, some of them top secret to keep in mind. taking them safe, in mar-a-lago s basement. that lacks a proper lock. personally, i think the national archives makes more sense but, that is just me and millions of other rational americans. there is a very real possibility that a former president of the united states could
the urban indian health institute. you ladies are prime for this discussion. doctor, i would start with you. why is rural maternal health disappearing? well, it is disappearing because labor units are expensive to maintain. a lot of hospitals are polled in the past three decades, we have seen over 300 units close in these rural posts of the country. just since the pandemic we have seen an additional 2000 hospitals close. they are expensive to maintain. the other reason they re to spring is because the majority of the population that gives birth in these facilities are reimbursed in medicaid. medicaid reimburses at a lower rate than private insurance. there is and a exorbitant didn t cost there that hospitals are not willing to absorb. what we are seeing is this disappearance, we re seeing people have to travel further. we are seeing these disparities being exacerbated from a financial perspective as well. i do want to point out to
crisis? the first thing that the president did was lift the i&d exclusion which was that age-age 1965 medicaid reimbursement to treatment centers. medicaid reimburses very little as it is. there s different theories as to why it wasn t lifted sooner. like governor christie stated the other day, it s going to open up to so many more beds which will allow so many more addicts to get into treatment. now it s going to be left up to the treatment centers to want to take them in at that low reimbursement rate. new jersey, governor chris christie, chairs the trump administration commission on opioid abuse. here s what he had to say about the crisis we have 175 people a day dying. we have a 9/11 every 2.5 weeks. think about this if that was happening, if a terrorist organization was killing 1 5 americans a day 175 americans a day on our soil, what would we
for state and the nation. why, then, are republican governors opting out of something that would, in fact, bring down costs? one of the things you brought up, you brought up the disparity in terms of coverage among different ethnic groups. there s also a dispar fi in quality of care separate from coverage and that s one of the big challenges with the medicaid program. for example, in new york state, for every dollar a private insurance pays a doctor, medicaid pays 30 cents. that means a lot of people don t get those preventative screenings. when they get diagnosed for cancer on medicaid, you get diagnosed at a more advanced stage for cancer because it wasn t diagnosed earlier because you didn t have access to primary care. that s not wrong that medicaid reimburses at something like half to 60% to what medicare reimburses at but that s not a reason not to expand medicaid? right. it would seem you re suggesting the federal government should put more money into medicaid so it can be