re: Edwards, OLOL officially announce plans for new ER in north Baton Rouge

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For every black person upset about the murder of black men at the hands of law enforcement consider this.... Every time local & state government skips over black companies or projects and supports the white plan that is a bullet shot into the black economy. It is an injustice.
We are told pick ourselves up by our bootstraps but denied access. We are told come up with plans that are doable, and when we do you give the money to the white company. We are told if we do this or that we would get the contracts, but the truth is its all bull crap. Just like the excuses given when cops kill unarmed black people in America.
Justice isn't just convicting cops. It's giving equity in contracts and opportunity. When the government gave us voting rights and civil rights that was easier to comply with because it didn't make them miss any money. Every time white leaders do projects in our community and black people don't gain financially from it, we are done an injustice.
The sad part is our black leaders don't think like that

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Gary Chambers, a co-chair of the blue ribbon commission, asked the governor at his news conference why Edwards did not choose Champion and pointed out Our Lady of the Lake's past hesitancy to build in north Baton Rouge.

Edwards doubled down on the state's partnership with Our Lady of the Lake. He said it made sense to use Our Lady of the Lake, the state's built-in partner for healthcare, to build an emergency room instead of a for-profit company based in Texas.

"My commitment was to the people of Baton Rouge, not to any healthcare provider," Edwards said. "And I certainly looked at the proposal which came from Champion, which doesn't run an emergency room anywhere, doesn't have a transfer agreement in Baton Rouge, runs boutique specialty hospitals that typically do not take Medicaid, and has not been approved by CMS to deliver emergency room care."

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It's a free standing ED, meaning they won't take any ambulances. A gunshot wound or any really sick person would have to come through the door and then transported by ambulance to OLOL once stabilized.

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Baton Rouge can't get out of its own way. What better way to create a hole in your budget than building a more convenient way for public aid recipients to bypass their primary care physicians.

I swear, the catering and pandering to the poor in this State will leave it flat broke for generations.

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This. I'm an ER RN at the Lake. This is all just to shut up the masses. Anything above urgent care level illnesses will be transfered to the Lake and no traumas will ever be brought there. It's all for show.

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What better way to create a hole in your budget than building a more convenient way for public aid recipients to bypass their primary care physicians.

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I guarantee you that he had some consulting agreement with Champion in the event they were able to open. No doubt about it. I know for an absolute 100% fact that the reason the governor brought OLOL in was because he did NOT like fat Gary and didn't want to have to deal with him because he is such a loud mouth. Couldn't have happened to a better person.

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