{"id":1902,"date":"2023-08-22T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.psva.org\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:03:12","slug":"healthcare-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.psva.org\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare for All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Shefali Hegde, MD<\/strong><br><em>PGY-4,\u00a0Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the premature declaration of the &#8216;end&#8217; of COVID-19, so too comes&nbsp;the end&nbsp;of&nbsp;federal and&nbsp;state&nbsp;pandemic-era protections. The harmful&nbsp;effects are already obvious for our patients. State officials estimate more than 300,000 will or already have lost Medicaid coverage since the end of the public emergency in&nbsp;May 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many of our most vulnerable patients&nbsp;will be the ones to suffer the most from these disenrollments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dee, a&nbsp;long-time inpatient of ours&nbsp;with&nbsp;severe&nbsp;depression and&nbsp;catatonia, lost Medicaid&nbsp;coverage during his last inpatient stay despite still being eligible. As a result, we&nbsp;were&nbsp;forced to prescribe him a shorter course of medications on discharge. He now has to&nbsp;pay for his life-saving medications out-of-pocket (easily, hundreds of dollars)&nbsp;and navigate a tedious, months-long re-application&nbsp;process on his own.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Matthew Desmond has outlined in his recent book, &#8220;Poverty, by America&#8221;, the majority of federal aid earmarked for the poor never reaches them.\u00a0 We see this in practice every day, as destitute individuals rely\u00a0on\u00a0hospitals simply to get a meal, take a shower, or find shelter.\u00a0As the disenrollments continue, for Medicaid and other\u00a0essential public services, we will see the\u00a0outcomes in our emergency rooms.\u00a0 The need for a physician-led movement for universal health care is as important today\u00a0as\u00a0ever<strong> (<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pnhp.org\/the-medicare-for-all-act-of-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/pnhp.org\/the-medicare-for-all-act-of-2023\/<\/strong><\/a><strong>).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shefali Hegde, MDPGY-4,\u00a0Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) With the premature declaration of the &#8216;end&#8217; of COVID-19, so too comes&nbsp;the end&nbsp;of&nbsp;federal and&nbsp;state&nbsp;pandemic-era protections. The harmful&nbsp;effects are already obvious for our patients. State officials estimate more than 300,000 will or already have lost Medicaid coverage since the end of the public emergency in&nbsp;May 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fall-2023"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthcare for All - PSV News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.psva.org\/?p=1902\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Healthcare for All - PSV News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Shefali Hegde, MDPGY-4,\u00a0Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) With the premature declaration of the &#8216;end&#8217; of COVID-19, so too comes&nbsp;the end&nbsp;of&nbsp;federal and&nbsp;state&nbsp;pandemic-era protections. 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