Posted on 01/12/2015 8:05:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. Rita Gorenflos 7-year-old son Nathaniel was in severe pain from a sinus infection.
But since the boy was covered by Medicaid, she couldnt immediately find a specialist willing to see him. After days of calling, she was finally able to get Nathaniel an appointment nearly a week later near their South Florida home. That was in 2005.
Last month, ruling in a lawsuit brought by the states pediatricians and patient advocacy groups, a federal district judge in Miami determined Nathaniels wait was unreasonable and that Floridas Medicaid program was failing him and nearly 2 million other children by not paying enough money to doctors and dentists to ensure the kids have adequate access to care.
The Florida case is the latest effort to get federal judges to force states to increase Medicaid provider payment rates for the state and federal program that covers about 70 million low-income Americans. In the past two decades, similar cases have been filed in numerous states, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas and the District of Columbia with many resulting in higher pay.
(Excerpt) Read more at kaiserhealthnews.org ...
Lets just cut to the chase and let the judges run everything
Just getting judges to do the work that Saul Alinsky himself cannot do.
Floridas Medicaid consumers were failing him and nearly 2 million other children by not paying enough money to doctors and dentists to ensure the kids have adequate access to care.
Getting very tired of paying for all the parasites; not much of MY income for me and mine!
Meanwhile the people who work and pay too much for bastardized policies and have the same problems will go unnoticed.
This is exactly why we need government run medical care paid for by the taxpayers and bureaucrats running the show...Oh wait.
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