Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for the Licensure of Hospitals in Virginia [12 VAC 5 ‑ 410]
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5/15/13  2:12 pm
Commenter: Wes McWillen

Reducing healthcare access for poor and underinsured women and men
 
Everyone knows that you are attempting to use unequal application of the law and bureaucratic trickery to outlaw abortion in VA. That's abhorrent enough, but the true fallout of these regulations is that you are reducing the availability of preventative and lifesaving healthcare for the low income and underinsured women, men, and trans men and women who get their mammograms, pap smears, emergency ultrasounds, pelvic exams, and birth control from these kinds of clinics. Do you really want to regulate that additional burden to the state? Or do you want poor women to die of cervical and breast cancer because they can no longer get free/cheap pap smears and mammograms? Or would you rather increase the burden on ERs by forcing those people to go to ERs for those services?
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