Jeb Bush killed a woman today, and this is what the GOP is dying to do to Medicare

[Dappleganger]

Yes, blood is on YOUR hands Jebbie! :mad:

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http://jacksonville.com/news/health-and-fitness/2010-11-22/story/jacksonville-woman-dies-after-insurer-repeatedly-denies-her

Jacksonville woman dies after insurer repeatedly denies her a liver transplant


Relatives say a Jacksonville mother would be alive today if her insurance provider hadn’t repeatedly denied her request for a liver transplant.

Alisa Wilson, 37, died Friday at 8:50 p.m. after a lengthy battle with an undisclosed liver disease, said her father, Eric Wilson.....



Over the summer, she was turned down several times by her insurer, a Medicaid reform HMO run by Sunshine State Health. The family switched her to traditional “fee-for-service” Medicaid because the local transplant center at Mayo Clinic Florida doesn’t typically accept Medicaid HMOs.

Like many Medicaid recipients in Duval County, Wilson was required to join a private plan as part of a Gov. Jeb Bush-era experimental overhaul of the program.

Only Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and Broward counties are part of the reform pilot, but state leaders are considering expanding it statewide.

[WCGreen]

1. King of the Death Panel...

How the free market works.

It free's people from their life.

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[Dappleganger]

2. And Rick Scott is here to continue the fight against the poor and middle class...

Why do you think Jebbie was giving him a bear hug on stage after Scott's upset?

[DrDan]

11. yep - rick here and marco fighting in DC - but

thankfully principles were upheld during the midterms - at the expense, of course, of the poor and middle-class.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Tough. That's RepubliCare. Deal with it. Smirk." - Jebbie (R)

[ellenfl]

5. definitely babs' kid. eom

[Angry Dragon]

4. HEY sarah here is your "death panel"

are you going to tweet about this??, NO, I thought so.

[Fleshdancer]

6. but it's ok because she's not Terry Shiavo.

:sarcasm:

[laughingliberal]

7. K & R nt

[Blue Owl]

8. Thanks Jeb!

Your family has done so much to help the American people suffer and toil.

Hey, let's give daddy a freedom medal!

[drm604]

9. It seems that people are only concerned about supposed government death panels.

Apparently private death panels are fine and dandy.

[MadMaddie]

12. That would be "Free Market Panels" to you!!

:sarcasm:

[ileus]

10. Jeb Bush doesn't like sick people

[mstinamotorcity]

13. Well now

if he had his hands in the F--ked up Savings and Loan Scandal and after ripping off the American people for about a couple billion dollars they elected him Governor of Florida. Fancy that!!! That he would actually f--k up Health care I don't see how anyone could be surprised. Him and Bernie did a number on folks in Florida. You think they might have been partners of some kind. Crooks usually know each other.

[madmax]

14. Only 37 - what a travesty.

Please Bar, don't worry your beautiful mind about such things. :sarcasm:

[seafan]

15. Jeb Bush engineered this, in his zeal to privatize Medicaid. He's still at it.

Jacksonville woman dies after insurer repeatedly denies her a liver transplant

November 22, 2010

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Over the summer, she was turned down several times by her insurer, a Medicaid reform HMO run by Sunshine State Health.

The family switched her to traditional “fee-for-service” Medicaid because the local transplant center at Mayo Clinic Florida doesn’t typically accept Medicaid HMOs.

Like many Medicaid recipients in Duval County, Wilson was required to join a private plan as part of a Gov. Jeb Bush-era experimental overhaul of the program.

Only Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and Broward counties are part of the reform pilot, but state leaders are considering expanding it statewide.

.....

This is one of the actual death panels left behind by Jeb Bush.


Just one of many land mines he left behind.





Jeb Bush's Medicaid legacy frets lawmakers: $300 million penalty if Medicaid not privatized , May 3, 2009


Another Jeb Bush privatization failure: Florida has no data 3 years into Medicaid trial, June 1, 2009



By the way, here is part of the incoming crook's gubernatorial transition team:

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Heading the budget team is Donna Arduin, well known in conservative economic circles for her opposition to taxes on wealth. She earned $180,000 in five months on Scott's campaign for writing his jobs plan.

Arduin was former Gov. Jeb Bush's first budget director. After working in a similar role for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, she returned to Florida in 2007 to write then-House Speaker Marco Rubio's plan to increase state sales taxes and eliminate property taxes.

Heading the transition team on health issues is another former Bush acolyte, Alan Levine. Now a vice president with Health Management Associates, a Naples-based operator of 58 hospitals in 15 states, he was most recently health secretary under Gov. Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, where he helped reduce the Department of Health and Hospitals' work force by 25 percent.

Levine oversaw Florida's Medicaid program when the federal government gave the state a waiver in 2005 to overhaul the huge health insurance program.

Lawmakers are now looking at ways to expand that pilot program, which shifts patients away from the fee-for service model and into managed care plans such as HMOs.

Levine, who worked at Bayonet Point Medical Center when Scott's Columbia hospital chain took it over in 1992, said Scott was "extremely metric driven" and expected the new governor to apply the same philosophy to state government and its projected $2.5 billion budget gap.

"We've got to be creative given the budget challenges of this state," Levine said. "We need to look at what programs are affecting the most people and how to get the most impact for every dollar spent."

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RIP, Alisa Wilson, 37 years old.

[Dappleganger]

17. Jeb Bush is still in charge of this state.

He never left. All of his people are still driving us into the ditch.

[seafan]

18. He never left. Just like his father. Always pulling the strings, from the shadows.

But, damn, he really misses the fresh towels.

[political_Dem]

16. Following in the footsteps of the family legacy, I see.

His mother would be so proud. Little Jebbie has done good in terms of screwing the common
man while his family winds up with more cash.

:sarcasm: