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Asked in September about her support for Medicare for All, Elizabeth Warren insisted at thethird presidential debatethat all Americansmdash;even those in rural communitiesmdash;could still seek treatment at their local hospitals under the universal healthcare plan. So let s be clear about this. People will have access to all of their doctors, all of their nurses, their community hospitals, their rural hospitals, the Massachusetts Democrat vowed.A Pew Research Studypublishedlast year, showed that getting to a hospital is a longer tripmdash;both in stanley cup distance and timemdash;for people in rural areas. The University of North Carolinahas trackedsome 160 rural hospital closures nationwide sinc stanley mugs e 2005, including in Nevada, South Carolina, and Ohio, the host of Tuesday s Democratic presidential debate. Across the country, in fact, at least 99 rural hospitals have shut down since 2010. After the Nye County Regional Medical Center was shuttered without warningin 2015, Nevadans in towns like Tonopah were left hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital. They shut the doors and that was it, Elaine Minges, a Tonopah resident, recalled earlier this year. Minges husband, Curt, suffered from stanley quencher a serious complication from diabetes some time later. The situation required prompt medical attention, but with the local hospital closed, none was to be found. That particular night, the helicopter was 45 minutes out before they could get to the airp Bddl Obama to address nation on debt ceiling stalemate
AP Photo/Steven Senne New Hampshire Democratic Governor John Lynch on Thursday rejected a bill req stanley cup uirin stanley mugs g a driver s license to vote, saying it would put into place a photo identification system that is far more restrictive than necessary. The bill would have required voters to present one of a range of identifications in the coming November election. In subsequent elections, they would have had to provide a military ID, a driver s license or state-issued non-driver ID. Voters unable to comply would have had to fill out an affidavit. The use of this inappropriate affid stanley termosky avit will cause confusion, slow the voting process and may result in the inability of eligible voters to cast their vote, Lynch said. Supporters of the bill, including New Hampshire House Speaker William O Brien, said it would have prevented voter fraud. We need to protect the integrity of the ballot box and guarantee that the one person, one vote principle is not diluted by dishonest votes, O Brien said in a statement. Lynch is the sixth Democratic governor to veto voter ID laws since 2011. According to the National Conference of State Legislators, 16 states have passed laws requiring a photo identification at the polls. Another 16 states have passed laws requiring some form of identification. Mostly Republican state legislators have increasingly taken up voter ID laws over the past two years. Opponents say the laws are unn |
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