Friday, January 07, 2011
Yet More On the backs Of The Poor
Wasington State has already removed dental care and eye-gasses and hospice care and physical therapy adults recieving Medicaid.
Now they want to remove prescription drug coverage March 1. Look for a lot of people's health to deteriorate. Look for a lot of people on drugs necessary for mental health to fill the jails and the psychiatric wards.
Even Deep South states slammed as being unprogressive have not removed prescription drugs. The State of Washington famed as a progressive state is doing this.
To give you all an idea how stupid and short sighted this is, if a person on Medicaid goes to a dentist to get a tooth extraxted, it costs the state $50. The exact same extraction performed in the emergency room of a hospital costs $500.
If someone needs drugs to control high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol, the inability to purchase prescription drugs is a problem.
I had physical therapy for problems with my neck. The physical therapy kept me from needing narcotic pain relievers. A month of physical therapy, a life of me doing certain exercises daily and Naproxin daily. Oh and it probably prevented me from having to gave surgery.
Anything that gets people treated sooner than later is a win. Early treatment is nearly always cheaper.
But noooo! We have to have cuts on things people who are poor need.
Some people on SSI have coped with Medicaid cuts by purchasing insurance. If their housing is cheap enough, it's doable and worth it. People on GAU only got $339 of cash assistance in a month. That often doesn't even cover shelter, let alone some dental and vision insurance or prescription coverage. People on GAU and GAX already are physically in poor health. Sometimes their mental health is not great. These are groups of people who already are barely making it.
Because the sitting s governor happens to be a Democrat, she is upsetting people who normally vote Democratic at least some of the time. So this is yet another fail, because people don't relize that the legislature and the failure of the state income tax initiative have a lot to do with it.
A lot of people who are ill-informed think it's because of people in our country without the right documents. No it isn't. People without the right documents don't see doctors or dentists. They take herbal remedies. Unless they give birth or are in an accident.
Nationwide the problem was caused by big banking and by two wars, and housing speculation. People can't wrap their heads around that. We could subtract two wars, we could properly regulate banks, but I bet that won't happen any time soon.
# posted by Katja R. @ 12:04 PM 
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We have all the belt-tightening while the banks go back to their old ways and prosper. We have an economic system whose life-blood circulates through the gut of parasites. Tis always thus.
# posted by 
: 1:52 AM
: 1:52 AM
I can never understand the US opposition to a system of free healthcare like everywhere else. How can a system where you can only get treatmwnt if you can afford it be fair?
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