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But this past spring the Republican-led state legislature passed a series of controversial bills that targeted the LGBTQ community.
That’s when Kleinmahon said he started having difficult conversations with his family about leaving the home they love. When he explained to his six-year-old daughter that their family had no choice but to leave New Orleans, she said, “We do have a choice, just one of them isn’t a good one.”
The Kleinmahons join other LGBTQ families who are also facing the same choice. They say they no longer feel safe or welcomed in states that have passed laws targeting their community. Many have made the difficult decision to leave.
In 2023, more than 525 anti-LGBTQ bills were passed in 41 states, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community. Of those bills, more than 220 explicitly targeted transgender people. As of June, 77 anti-LGBTQ bills had been signed into law.
Why the hell does Louisiana only have one pediatric cardiologist?
Because it’s a for-profit healthcare system and that’s not where they pay pediatric cardiologists what they feel they’re worth.
And when you’re a pediatric cardiologist, you pretty much dictate your salary.
What do you mean? Are public hospitals also for-profit in Louisiana? How can an employee dictate thier salary?
Edit: also why the fuck am I downvoted? I can’t ask questions?
The entire US health care system is for profit only.
They can dictate their salary because hospitals need them, not the other way around.
They dictate their salary by leaving and finding people who will pay them.
Pediatric cardiology is a difficult specialty and it turns out that people are willing to spend quite a lot of money when their children have heart problems.
Difficult, with a small supply of doctors and a high demand from patients. What would you pay to save your child’s life?
I can’t give you a breakdown of the numbers but, some of the public hospitals in the state have been privatized, yes.
Smart people don’t want to raise families in states designed to be at the bottom of lists like education, jobs, medicine, and happiness
But hey, I’m sure the people still living there have owned the libs so many times, it’s all worth it
The title says “one of the only…” which I think they mean “one of the few…”
It’s not a very good state to live in.
I’d say it’s the worst.
Maybe for the same reason they now have one fewer?
The very end of the article said “Now there are two pediatric cardiologists in the state”, which implies there were three before.