Thread by @vox_n_thecosmos

THREAD

To help you understand why refusing insurance coverage for unvaccinated people isn’t a solution.

It would devastate the healthcare system.

Continue reading to understand why. /1

EMTALA laws require hospitals to treat EMC (emergency medical conditions). That care must be continued until EMC has resolved or stabilized enough for the pt to take care of themselves at home. Hospitals cannot absorb that cost. /2

acep.org/life-as-a-phys…

Forcing people to pay higher premiums would only result in them being unable to afford insurance, so they just wouldn’t get it. The result would be the same: hospitals could not absorb the costs. The healthcare system would fall apart. /3

“Because the ACA envisioned low-income people receiving coverage through Medicaid, it does not provide financial assistance to people below poverty for other coverage.” /4

kff.org/medicaid/issue…

States that failed to expand Medicaid have had to close the doors to many rural hospitals because the working poor often cannot afford insurance from the ACA exchange, so they have NO coverage. Hospitals had to absorb the costs & could not. /5

ccf.georgetown.edu/2018/10/29/mor…

Large numbers of unvaccinated Covid patients who lack coverage would not even be sustainable for hospitals in states with expanded Medicaid. /6

We as a society cannot afford for our healthcare system to collapse. /7

I understand the anger & outrage from the vaccinated over those who remain unvaccinated. I feel it myself. Yet, I continue to treat these patients because even if they don’t value their own lives, I do. We have the power to change the ending to this story. /8

So please, if you know anyone who isn’t vaccinated, talk to them. People are hearing disinformation horror stories about the vaccines. Arm yourself with facts. Don’t talk down to them or judge them. Help them to understand. /9

#GetVaccinated 💉

#CovidWarriors

People often hear disinformation telling them masks are ineffective. If you know someone who has heard that, share this study with them. /10

#WearAMask

#CovidWarriors

uab.edu/news/health/it…

We will sink together or float together since every person is potentially a Petri dish waiting to help SARS-CoV2 evolve into another more deadly variant that can evade both natural & vaccine induced immunity. Be that life preserver that helps everyone float. /End

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