"Poor people on Medicaid seeking emergency care may have a more difficult time getting coverage by managed care organizations under a new policy by the Bush administration."
"This new policy will not only affect low-income emergency patients, it will decrease access to lifesaving emergency care for all Americans," said Dr. George Molzen, president of American College of Emergency Physicians."
Well, we have to give those new Bush/GOP tax breaks to the ultra rich 1 percent, ya know? And the money to fund Bush's War Against Iraq isn't goin to come out of thin air ~ right? SOMEONE has to GIVE MORE!
posted on January 20, 2003 04:36:19 AM new
My daughter, one of the working poor, has healthcare through Medicaid because she has a young daughter. It's called CareSource. What a joke! They urged her to take the CareSource over the regular Medicaid stating that the benefits are better. Not so. She has been through three doctors already because the doctors keep droping the plan. She has been forced to use the emergency room on occasion because she cannot find a doctor in our area that accepts CareSource. She suffers from a panic disorder and if you don't know what those symptoms are like - they mimic a heart attack in a lot of instances. In the clinic where I work, we have yet to be reimbursed by CareSource. It's been a constant resubmission of claims. Each denial brings the need to send more and more documents to them.
Medicaid and Medicare are a mess as it is. . .cuts will make it worse. I hate that we don't provide for our elderly in this country and I hate it even more that we provide so much to other countries. We allow our vets to sleep on the street and watch as mother's beg for food for their children. Back on track. . .
Our poor should not be funding this war through the loss of medical benefits or any other means. I think Bush's rich buddies should be footing the bill. Or, maybe Bush himself since this is his big idea.
One of the news shows did a segment on food lines in this country and how we are going backward toward depression times. They happened to highlight Ohio (where I live). One of the responses from a viewer was that this had to be a joke devised by the network just to make the president look bad. Now, what kind of a comment is that? Food lines are for real and the economy is going into the toilet (if it isn't already there) quickly.
posted on January 20, 2003 10:41:47 AM new
Yes, that's true, Cheryl(? can't remember your name right. I keep thinking Cheryl. Pardon.) Even right here in the RT we have those who refuse to believe that Bush is doing anything, but bad for this country. All the while, the country is going down into the toilet. There were people during the 1930's in the Great Depression who had lots of money and spent their time Puttin' On The Ritz and sailing everywhere for vacations, whle the majority of Americans made do with so very little. Republicans like that sort of misery and I figured out juts why. They like everyone to be in a state of hopelessness and human misery because that's the only way that they can justify their phlosophy. In an enlightened environment; that is, a strong economy with plenty of good paying jobs and peoplle have money for fun and pleaure to make everyone's life much better -- who believes a word of their lies and nonsense?
And it's not just the Poor getting Poorer. It's also the Middle-Class being turned into the streets. Sure, it's only the beginning and we have yet to see mass foreclousures on mortgages and the like, but it's coming. My advice to anyone who has money in the stock market is to take your losses and pull it out into something better; like bonds or precious metals or other near-sure investments. You heard that here first.
posted on January 20, 2003 11:46:00 AM new
War Chest? What war? The whole country has slowed down because of the 'war' but where is it being held? While I see a lot of posturing, nothing much else is happening and that alone has helped slow the economy down. If this is a real war, there should be a beginning and end. This one has neither.
Sorry, but junquemama beat you too it Borillar when she said "Buy Gold"!
