Wisconsin Cuts Back On Cancer Program For Low-Income Women, Blaming Obamacare

[sheshe2]

WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin is in the midst of dramatically restructuring a health care program for low-income women, attributing the move to the Affordable Care Act. The changes have taken women's health advocates by surprise, and they are now trying to convince the state that setting a six-month timeline to dramatically alter the program is unnecessary and could leave many women without services for breast and cervical cancer.

The Wisconsin Well Woman Program provides preventative health screening services to low-income women who are uninsured or underinsured. The program, which has been around for nearly 20 years, is funded by both the state and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has been credited with providing more than 500,000 breast and cervical cancer screenings to more than 70,000 women.

Wisconsin's system is designed to help women locally, with a "coordinating agency" in each of the state's 72 counties aimed at helping women navigate the system of more than 1,000 participating providers.

But on July 1, this entire system is set to change: There will be just 5-10 coordinating agencies in the state and only a handful of health care providers. And although the restructuring is set to go into effect in just a few months, no one knows who those providers will be.

"There are women who are being screened and detected for cancer now who cannot schedule their follow-up appointment because no one knows who the providers will be after July," said Sara Finger, executive director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health.

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MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/wisconsin-obamacare_n_4964376.html

Dammit all to hell. What country do we live in!?

Fuck the GOP and the Kochs and Scott Walker! Fuck them all!

Stop screwing with peoples lives.

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is the death panels the GOP is talking about. Walker and gang decided against accepting Medicaid

Expansion and now they are lying about the reason they are shutting down the clinics. All who fights ACA and are on the public payroll should nit have health care benefits.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes, the grime reapers are here.

The GOP has become the personification of death.

They want to deny Medicaid expansion. That is a death toll to many. They want to repeal and not replace ACA. The millions that signed up will again have nothing. They too will die.

[Thinkingabout]

6. You have a point. Some years back in Reagan days they cut research for Alzheimer's.

My father had been diagnosed and I saw first hand my father losing quality of life and thought it was very cruel and then to see Reagan in his latter years as president also showing signs of Alzheimer's and slowing down research for this terrible condition did not serve Reagan well.

[sheshe2]

8. My dad too, thinkingabout.

So sad.

The GOP like Reagan never seem to think ahead. They never look to the future, they want what they want now.

[Scuba]

16. Exactly.

[William769]

2. How do these fucking people stay elected?

[atreides1]

5. It's very simple

Stupid people are allowed to vote...

[sheshe2]

9. I don't know William.

Yet the two articles I just posted, they make me ill. I am angry and then again, I just want to cry.

[atreides1]

4. Wisconsin leads the way

And here I thought that the Texas was the Red state that hated low-income women the most!

[atreides1]

7. And once again....

...the failure to point out that it's the voters who put Walker in office! Stupid, deluded, racist, bigoted, evil fucks...who are only breathing because it's natural.

The Kochs didn't fill the ballot boxes with votes, the voters did...and in the case of Wisconsin they fucking did it twice...the second time they had the audacity to claim it was because of principles...Walker didn't do anything wrong to be removed from office, is what some said!

It's kind of like watching an arsonist walk into a building with gasoline and a lighter(Walker's attacks on the unions was kind of a hint on what he was going to do), and not stopping the arsonist when he comes back out only without the gasoline and lighter!

Those low-income women of Wisconsin are going to suffer because of the voters of Wisconsin...the very same voters who put Walker in office, not once, but twice...

[Release The Hounds]

14. The attitude of voters here in WI

Is appalling. They couldn't be more ignorant of him. Of course the WI media don't dare question him as usual.

[atreides1]

26. Intentional ignorance...

...from the voters, combined with an ass kissing media...will only provide a path for a dictator!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Former WI Dept of Health Services Director

Dennis Smith -- is a douchebag of the highest order. Previously he'd been with the Heritage Foundation, penning articles advising states to refuse Medicaid. He then booted tens of thousands of people off Badgercare (the state's version of Medicare). He totally hosed up public health in Wisconsin, had an affair with a subordinate, and then resigned last year to go to a DC lobbying firm.

[Cha]

11. How tragic, she.. I hope so many who want to help the people in Wisconsin who

are being abandoned by the heartless gop government will get to the polls and fire Walker in November.

[sheshe2]

12. It's all about voting right now Cha.

That and awareness.

[Cha]

13. KICK your excellent expose thread, she!

[niyad]

15. and the war on women continues apace. a very angry k and r.

[B Calm]

17. Mitch Daniels ex gov now president of Purdue has done a very similar

tactic with Purdue employees. He raised insurance cost to employees and they now have much higher deductibles. Then he turns around and blames it all on Obama Care.

[napkinz]

18. KICK!

[sheshe2]

19. Excellent Pictorial of the GOP and what they stand for.

Which is themselves and their rich masters.

Yes we need to vote them out. 2014 is a life or death election.

Thank you napkinz, perfect graphics for this OP!

[napkinz]

20. you're welcome sheshe2 ... time to VOTE THEM OUT!

[sheshe2]

22. We've got a lot of work to do, napkinz.

GOTV2014!

[napkinz]

23. WillyT started this must-read thread ...

THANK YOU Eugene Robinson !!! - 'A Midterm Imperative' (Wishy-washy won't work.)

A Midterm Imperative
By Eugene Robinson - RCP/WaPo
March 18, 2014

WASHINGTON -- Here is what Democrats should learn from their party's loss in a special House election in Florida last week: Wishy-washy won't work.

MORE: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024685609

[sheshe2]

24. I just saw it!

Thanks napkinz.

[napkinz]

25. OK

[napkinz]

21. K&R

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