Do Alabamans hate Obamacare so much that he felt all he had to use was that name to hide that fact that 'Rose’s law' was passed unanimously by the House and Senate in 1999?
Here's the story about how the law came to be as it is now.
In December 1998, Rose Church, a nurse from Haleyville, went to Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Ala., to have a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately, Rose died more than a week later after complications, signs of which were not detected in the early hours after her delivery.
Her husband, Gene Church, pushed for a new law in Montgomery, which came to be called "Rose's Law."
That law, which the Alabama Legislature passed unanimously, required insurers to allow women coverage for at least 48 hours hospitalization after childbirth.
That's the law Stutts wants to repeal, in addition to another requirement that caregivers notify patients if they have dense breast tissue, which can impede mammograms.
Keep in mind that no one else, except for Stutts' six cosponsors for the bill, seem to be against this. Insurance Companies have said that they are fine with the law as it is, and the lobbyists to represent the healthcare industry have not taken a position on the legislation.
However, Stutts did not make his Senate colleagues aware of Church's death while under his care or her relationship to the bill he is trying to eliminate.
Senator Dr. Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) has offered SB289, which would repeal a woman’s legal right to remain in the hospital for 48 hours after a normal live birth and 96 hours if the birth was cesarean or presented complication. His bill would also repeal State law requiring physicians to notify woman in writing that her mammogram showed dense tissue that may mask breast cancer.
Stutts took to Facebook to defend this measure saying, “I am proud to say that I am hard at work removing one-size-fits-all Obamacare-style laws from the books in Alabama.”
However, the State law that guarantees a mother and child’s right to at least a 48 hour hospital stay was not born from Obamacare, but from the death of a mother and the concerns of a heartbroken father of a motherless child left behind
"Rose’s law” was passed unanimously by the House and Senate in 1999.
Rose Church, a 36-year-old registered nurse from Haleyville, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on December 1, 1998. After 36 hours she was released from the hospital only to return around 36 hours later due to sessile bleeding that required four units of blood. She was again discharged only to die approximately 36 hours later of a heart attack, according to the report. Her autopsy revealed that Church had placental tissue still inside her womb, 11 days after she delivered her daughter Logan Rose.
Stutts was her OB/GYN and was named in the wrongful death suit filed by her husband Gene Church. The suit states, among other things, that Rose Church was released from the hospital despite the fact that she “was suffering from placenta accreta and continued to display persistent tachycardia.”
Her husband told the Tuscaloosa News in 1999, “If the legislation had been law last year my wife would have stayed in the hospital for 48 hours and the blood test would have shown she was having problems before she was discharged.”
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Senator/Physician Moves to Repeal Law Inspired by His Patient’s Death
Here's the story about how the law came to be as it is now.
In December 1998, Rose Church, a nurse from Haleyville, went to Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Ala., to have a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately, Rose died more than a week later after complications, signs of which were not detected in the early hours after her delivery.
Her husband, Gene Church, pushed for a new law in Montgomery, which came to be called "Rose's Law."
That law, which the Alabama Legislature passed unanimously, required insurers to allow women coverage for at least 48 hours hospitalization after childbirth.
That's the law Stutts wants to repeal, in addition to another requirement that caregivers notify patients if they have dense breast tissue, which can impede mammograms.
Keep in mind that no one else, except for Stutts' six cosponsors for the bill, seem to be against this. Insurance Companies have said that they are fine with the law as it is, and the lobbyists to represent the healthcare industry have not taken a position on the legislation.
However, Stutts did not make his Senate colleagues aware of Church's death while under his care or her relationship to the bill he is trying to eliminate.
Senator Dr. Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) has offered SB289, which would repeal a woman’s legal right to remain in the hospital for 48 hours after a normal live birth and 96 hours if the birth was cesarean or presented complication. His bill would also repeal State law requiring physicians to notify woman in writing that her mammogram showed dense tissue that may mask breast cancer.
Stutts took to Facebook to defend this measure saying, “I am proud to say that I am hard at work removing one-size-fits-all Obamacare-style laws from the books in Alabama.”
However, the State law that guarantees a mother and child’s right to at least a 48 hour hospital stay was not born from Obamacare, but from the death of a mother and the concerns of a heartbroken father of a motherless child left behind
"Rose’s law” was passed unanimously by the House and Senate in 1999.
Rose Church, a 36-year-old registered nurse from Haleyville, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on December 1, 1998. After 36 hours she was released from the hospital only to return around 36 hours later due to sessile bleeding that required four units of blood. She was again discharged only to die approximately 36 hours later of a heart attack, according to the report. Her autopsy revealed that Church had placental tissue still inside her womb, 11 days after she delivered her daughter Logan Rose.
Stutts was her OB/GYN and was named in the wrongful death suit filed by her husband Gene Church. The suit states, among other things, that Rose Church was released from the hospital despite the fact that she “was suffering from placenta accreta and continued to display persistent tachycardia.”
Her husband told the Tuscaloosa News in 1999, “If the legislation had been law last year my wife would have stayed in the hospital for 48 hours and the blood test would have shown she was having problems before she was discharged.”
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Senator/Physician Moves to Repeal Law Inspired by His Patient’s Death
