Doctors caution the state that health care cut backs will hurt sufferers and cause a huge hole in the budget.
It took years for a latest hospital to be constructed after Charity Hospital flooded and years to form a partnership with a management group to run the latest hospital.
And now doctors claim this new health care system will be on life support, costing the state more money, if intended cuts go through.
"Limiting approach to care, limiting training of future physicians, and harming our present safety net is unconscionable," stated Dr. Peter DeBlieux, professor of clinical medicine at LSUHSC and medical director of University Medical Center.
Doctors warn cuts will limit health care approach to all, involving crisis care with behavioral health, sexual assaults and to the region's only Level I Trauma Center.
"So we have persons who are in car collisions, your friends, your family members, who are in car crashes that are brought here, that get life-saving care here," said Dr. DeBlieux. "That would be limited. That is on the block."
Doctors are concerned about future generations' healthcare approach statewide because 70% of the medical experts trained in UMC from LSU and Tulane Medical Schools stay to practice in the state.
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