Ohio's poor to lose medicaid

[FreedomAngel82]

*sigh*

Here's the link: http://www.nbc4i.com/news/4168836/detail.html

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<COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state is cutting back on a program that helped pay for treatment for people with chronic health conditions.

Disability Medical Assistance is a $73 million state-funded effort that provides health care and prescription drug coverage for poor Ohioans.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has filed paperwork enabling Gov. Bob Taft to sign an emergency order to essentially dissolve the program. People receiving benefits will be unable to be recertified as of March First.

The move would save about $4 million in this fiscal year and the cost of the full program in the next year.

Some critics say it will hurt Ohio's most vulnerable residents and that the decision may be illegal.>

[RPM]

1. shame, they voted for **

too goddamn bad.

you reap what you sow - I thought red state sunday indoctrination covered that <sigh>

(cant spell at 1AM...)

[FreedomAngel82]

2. I guess they want it to be

faith based. :eyes:

[Conservativesux]

3. It is faith based. They put thier faith in * and they lost.

[Tux]

4. Be good....

They did vote for Bush and may hae voted straight (lol) Republcian. Now they have to live with that decision. I hope banning gay marriage and a possible admendment to ban it as well will make them happy. When will people learn that Republicians only care for corporations and Evangicals and no one or anything else?

[autorank]

8. Agree, sort of...

I believe that public pain is the only way people will ever gain the motivation to actually participate in the electoral process and make sure it works for them. At the same time, there will be a great deal of human suffering because of this type of move. Taft is, of course, a pig for doing this along with his participation in the theft. He will pay but so will those denied.

I personally hold every American who failed to vote responsible for the * victory and everything bad that happens as a result. About 25% of the people in this country are totally nuts at any given time. That 25% translates to about 70% of the * vote, his core evangelical supporters. They cannot win without the 40% of those who consistently do not vote doing their whiny "there's no difference" thing. They are the losers, the blow hards, the true enemies of this country.

The more I think about it the less I think it's the Medicaid recipients. They're indigent. It's the walking indifferent and the Taft's of the world.

[RPM]

9. ahhhh, but they shall suffer for their 'faith'

and thats the F***ing problem with the X-tian voting sect.

I am looking forward to dying and laving this fucked up world behind...

[autorank]

12. Don't go, the fun is about to begin. Think how much fun hell-fire

political retribution is going to be. No trend goes on for ever. This one is based on a weak plurality and can turn in a heart beat, you just watch over the next three months. Harass me mercilessly if I'm wrong but by June the fires will be stirring to a full crescendo. Think how much fun it will be to watch our side peel the bark off the tree of neocon/fundie/corporatist structures -- impeached judges, renewals for network and other broadcast unit licenses, jail terms for those who looted the public treasury. If you think it's not going to happen, go here http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts-arch.html and read what Paul Craig Roberts, scion of the old right and extremely well connected/funded by them, has to say. It makes some of our threads look tame, I kid you not.

Now, is leaving this mortal plain an option when you have this much to look forward to...Mr. McMahon couldn't have scripted it better.

We shall prevail and the reckoning will be a sight to see!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. When they cut taxes for the wealthy...

...Someone else has to pay the bills.

In '02 Buxh was asked how he would make ends meet after his 1st round of tax cuts....He implied that he would "let the states govern themselves".

Was I the only one that saw this coming?

[Negatron]

6. Oh shit. I'm on Medicaid.

Thankfully, not in Ohio. I live in Alabama, but that's not terribly reassuring. If purplish-red Ohio can shit-can Medicaid programs, how much more easily could crimson-red Alabama do the same?

For poor Ohioans, it's too late. Looks like they will have to suffer with treatable health problems so that wealthy people can get a big tax cut and gays can't get married.

"Emergency measure" indeed. It's going to put quite a few more people in the emergency room, that's for sure.

[Lindacooks]

7. This is a false 'saving' of money

When people who don't have health insurance get sick, they don't go to the doctor (obviously), but wait until they become seriously ill, then go to the emergency department of the hospital.

Then we all end up paying for it, much, much more because the condition has progressed, not to mention the additional suffering heaped upon the patient and his/her family.

Fucking Repukes - penny 'wise' and pound for damn sure foolish. They are so unChristian they couldn't be more unlike Christ if they tried.

[Gloria]

10. Things moving right along....Yup, progress every day with

Republicans in office. How ya feeling now, Ohio??

[journalist3072]

11. Ohioans

And just think, the right-wing wants us to believe that those Ohioans stood in line for 4, 6, and 10 hours to vote for the status quo. Right!