An Earth hating South Dakota legislator from Madison wants to allow eminent domain and trespass for some pipeline operators but also wants to protect CAFOs from scrutiny. Casey Crabgrass Crabtree admits that the cases of criminal trespass at CAFOs don't even exist but ignores the fact that those operations are in fact agro-terrorists themselves.
New Mexico pays 28% of Medicaid costs and the federal government funds the rest under provisions of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Of the 342,000 patients who visited the emergency departments of the three biggest New Mexico medical providers in 2015 forty percent were Medicaid patients. Then during the Trump Virus pandemic New Mexico boosted its study of single-payer medical care. Now with the Orange Julius threatening healthcare again lawmakers expanded Medicaid and extended coverage to most New Mexicans under 65 providing insurance for an additional 80,000-85,000 patients and increasing reimbursement rates for medical providers.
Now, a study published on 12 August in the journal Nature mapped more than 15,000 CAFOs and found that fine particulate matter is nearly 30% higher near cattle farms and nearly 11% higher near hog farms. Feedlot hotspots in Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota have high percentages of Latino workers who have no health insurance. Exposure to dust and manure stored in lagoons is linked to serious health conditions, including asthma, bronchitis, cardiovascular disease, and leukemia.
But in red states the fates of brown-skinned workers are sealed so it comes as little surprise that South Dakota is 49th in opportunity and fifth worst state for nurses but third best state for doctors.
Read the study linked here.
