On March 15, 2023, Fulton County’s Board of Commissioners held it’s March Board Meeting. On the program for the conference was the approval of a resolution “licensing the Fulton County Attorney to submit a problem with the Department of Justice requesting it examine Wellstar Health System for Health Care Redlining; and for other functions.”
During the hearing, recently chosen commissioner Bridget Thorne of District 1 opposed the resolution while providing proof that the healthcare facility is closing over cost-effective problems instead of racial “redlining”. Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center (AMC), one of 2 Wellstar medical facilities discussed in the hearing, had actually attempted to guarantee the ongoing operations of the worn out structure and considering that as early as February 2020 by support and a “ sale or collaboration“.
Thorne stated that Wellstar has “long served the susceptible clients in our city without public financial backing” which Wellstar has actually “supplied more indigent charity and unreimbursed health care than any other system in the state of Georgia.” Thorne discussed that an essential modernization overhaul of the aged facilities would need a financial investment of around $1 billion however that such financial investment is challenging when they lost $107 million in unreimbursed medical treatment in the last 12 months while the completing healthcare facility down the street is supported by Fulton County with $50 to $60 million.
Rather than react with proof to oppose Thorne’s declaration based upon Wellstar’s last monetary audit and declarations made, Commissioner Abdur-Rahman blasted Thorne’s “White Privilege” and mentions telephone call from constituents are her basis for argument.
Below is the “White Privilege” allegation from Commissioner Abdur-Rahman, followed by the whole sector of the hearing, in which Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr likewise called her out for “White Privilege.” White Jewish Commissioner Dana Barrett likewise believed on Thorne’s declaration in the complete variation.
The complete section of that program point:
Commissioner Marvin Arrington, Jr needed to get one last final jab in at Commissioner Thorne, who previously made it clear she was of Mexican descent. Mexican-Americans are, naturally, acknowledged as a minority ethnic culture in the United States.
More gold from the kid on the Fulton Board, @marvinarrington
” Do you understand what a ‘Karen’ is ?? Because you seem like a ‘Karen!'”
Commissioner Thorne is a Mexican-American and made that clear previously in the hearing.
For a skilled lawyer, you sure https://t.co/q36 IJ6DUUG … pic.twitter.com/UxCEnjnzvV
— CannCon (@CannConActual) March 27, 2023
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