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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, a patient at right is assisted while walking out of the emergency department at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, an EMS worker wheels a patient through the emergency department at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, EKG Technician Gwendolyn Freeman makes her rounds at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, a bed sits empty in an operating room at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, emergency care center paramedic Michael Gilbert cleans equipment in an exam room at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, a worker wheels beds through the emergency department at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. In two years, federal payments to hospitals treating a large share of the nation’s poor will begin to evaporate under the premise that more people than ever will have some form of insurance under the federal health care law. The problem is that many states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving public safety net hospitals there in a potentially precarious financial situation and elected officials facing growing pressure to find a fiscal fix. And in an election year, Democrats are using the decision by Republican governors not to expand Medicaid as a major campaign issue and arguing the hospital situation could have been avoided. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, David Pichler, an American diver and former Sydney Games team captain, shows off his Olympic rings tattoo during a television interview while meeting with locals at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia adopted a law last year, prohibiting vaguely defined propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia. The legislation makes it illegal to disseminate information to children even if it merely shows that gay people are just like everybody else. "It's just scary," Pichler, said in Sochi. "For kids not to be able to be who they are or to say that by gay people promoting homosexuality we're going to turn people gay, it's basically saying you're going against the whole class." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, David Pichler, an American diver and former Sydney Games team captain, sits during a television interview while meeting with locals at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia adopted a law last year, prohibiting vaguely defined propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia. The legislation makes it illegal to disseminate information to children even if it merely shows that gay people are just like everybody else. "It's just scary," Pichler said in Sochi. "For kids not to be able to be who they are or to say that by gay people promoting homosexuality we're going to turn people gay, it's basically saying you're going against the whole class." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, gay activists Hudson Taylor, right, Founder and Executive Director of Athlete Ally, and board member Robert Smith, left, meet with locals at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia adopted a law last year, prohibiting vaguely defined propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia. The legislation makes it illegal to disseminate information to children even if it merely shows that gay people are just like everybody else. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, Andrei Sarkisian, second from right, who goes by the stage name of Miss Zhuzha, gets ready backstage before a performance at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia adopted a law last year, prohibiting vaguely defined propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia. The legislation makes it illegal to disseminate information to children even if it merely shows that gay people are just like everybody else. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
