Today it is reported that the state budget built by Gov. Don Carcieri, tweaked by Rep. Steve Costantino, and passed by a so-called Democratic legislature has thrown RI Children to the wolves...the first to feel the cuts in state services are over a thousand poor, needy children. They chose to kill medical services so that they could preserve the tax cuts for RI's richest citizens. SHAME....
Here's how today's story reads:
Some, in fact, are very sick children. Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, the HMO that cares for about 60 percent of RIte Care enrollees, including 50,000 children, has tallied the number of its patients who were affected by the RIte Care change. Among those dropped from RIte Care are 54 children with asthma, 50 with attention deficit disorder and eight with diabetes. One is in the midst of treatment for bone cancer and has already lost a leg. One needs a ventilator to breathe and is currently living at the state-run Tavares Center. Several have cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, depression or sickle cell anemia.
What will happen to them? “I don’t know,” said Dr. Mack Johnston, the plan’s chief medical officer. “We are kidding ourselves if we think there’s somebody out there, some charitable pots of money, that’s going to pick up the responsibility. … The bottom line is that many will get sicker.”
And over 500 corporations don't pay any RI tax or less than $400. Where is the compassion in that? Where is the social justice? Were are Catholic values? Fight abortion and then when the poor children get sick...IGNORE them...cut their medical support...shame, shame, shame....
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