Sen. David Lucas |
The bill would allow tiny stabilization centers or urgent care centers "to provide triage, then send patients to hospitals" and "exempts such stabilization centers from having to prove to state hospital regulators that they are a viable proposition," Lee writes. “We are not a Third World country,” Lucas told a Senate committee, but “somehow we’ve done everything in this state for economic development, airline tax breaks, folks who make planes get tax breaks, but we’re talking about the average Georgia citizen.”
Lucas, who suggested the centers would need to use federal funds, asked the committee "for a few days to fine-tune his bill in consultation with hospital regulators," saying the bill in its current form is not technically workable. (Read more)
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