People protest against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts in AZ - pics

[Kadie]

People protest against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts as they walk to the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people. Two people have since died.


People hold crosses as they protest against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts outside the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people. Two people have since died. The tags on the crosses read: "Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) denied".


Debbie Reed (L-R), Jane Doherty and Jennifer Reed protest against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people. Two people have since died. The tags on the crosses read: "Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) denied".


Dennis Howerton holds a sign and cross to protest against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts outside the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people. Two people have since died. The tag on the cross reads: "Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) denied".


Protesters hold signs as they speak out against state Medicaid transplant budget cuts in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people. Two people have since died.


Douglas Gravagna who suffers from viral cardiomyopathy poses for a portrait in Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2011. Gravagna, 44, has a 6 percent function to his heart, which is kept beating by a pacemaker and a defibrilator. He applied for state Medicaid for a needed transplant, but got a denial letter last October saying that he did not meet the criteria for a transplant under a new state bill. The measure enacted by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seeks to trim Medicaid spending in the desert state, which projects a 2011 budget deficit of $763.6 million and a full-year 2012 budget deficit of $1.15 billion, and has denied potentially lifesaving transplants to nearly 100 people like Gravagna, two of whom have since died.

[Wilms]

1. So Brewer has a little "death panel" thing goin' on. n/t

[spanone]

2. yep, where are the teabaggers? i thought they hated the 'death panels'?

[xchrom]

3. +1

[fasttense]

4. She is murdering people through political cruelty - a psychopath's wet dream. n/t

[MisterP]

5. oo, they could've covered them in gold foil and made them

the proverbial Cross of Gold the wealthy always want to nail the rest of us onto
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