State proposal would cut Medicaid benefits

[Dems4HowardDean]

State proposal would cut Medicaid benefits

By Roddie Burris

Knight Ridder


COLUMBIA - The state of South Carolina has asked the federal government for permission to cut the medical benefits of more than 800,000 of the state's poorest residents, most of them children.

The state's proposal also would increase Medicaid patients' costs to receive medical care.

The Palmetto States proposal has not been reviewed publicly in South Carolina. However, some Washington observers familiar with the proposal say the Bush administration is likely to grant the request.

"This is no tweak," said Kathleen Stoll, director of health policy at Families USA, a Washington-based advocacy group that is tracking requests for waivers from federally prescribed Medicaid coverage submitted by various states. "This is major, major damage to the federal Medicaid program for South Carolina." More.....

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/12210402.htm

[Tux]

1. Family values at work

SC families that need Medicaid could use their tax cuts. We're winners now! Get what you vote for, fools.

[undergroundpanther]

2. time to say fuck the rich

Dammit if they cut medicare why don't we insist on cutting corporate welfare and repealing the tax cut and faith based initiatives and make all the pigs with accounts in the canary islands pay up their share.

How much are comfortable 'people willing to let wealthy parasites rob the poor even more blind?

Horatio Alger is DEAD.

So we'd better take care of each other, because

the rich don't care about anyone but themselves,They live in bubbles and a fantasy land of privelege..They have no idea what poverty is like,but the fear it worse than death.
They'll use us up and destroy our lives for another buck.
They have no heart and they are pathologically greedy they can never get enough.So we have to tell them when enough is enough and cut off their profit machine..get them to get their head out of the feed trough somehow before we all are poor and dying in the street to make the pigs fatter.

[Erika]

3. Bush's America

Hurting the poor. Tax cuts for the rich paid for denying help to the needy. Just the beginning into turning our country into a third world nation.