State Kicking Huge Number Of Kids Off Medicaid
Health Care Benefits On The Line As States Struggle With Medicaid Costs
In Pennsylvania, the struggle to keep up with the demand for health care among the state's poor residents means that nearly 90,000 children are losing access to Medicaid benefits.
The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett (R) says it's just cleaning house and striking people from the program whose paperwork isn't in order, but critics see the move as an underhanded effort to reduce state spending by dumping needy children, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Those 89,000 children all lost Medicaid benefits just in the five months between August 2011 and January 2012, the newspaper reports, citing data from the state agency that runs Medicaid.
State Senator Vincent Hughes (D) of Philadelphia reportedly accused the administration of waging a "war on poor folk," according to the newspaper.
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They're letting the most defenseless Americans, children, our future, die so that the rich can keep those tax breaks that keep their Cayman Islands bank accounts bulging. Good luck trying to get your camel through that eye of the needle, Repukes.
