Posted on 12/22/2003 9:21:43 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
Young moms and concerned doctors on Thursday attacked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's mooted health cuts, saying they could devastate local services for low income, immigrant groups.
The activists accused Schwarzenegger of hypocrisy for running on a campaign of expanding health care coverage for children, then promptly announcing $2 billion in health cuts over two years to help compensate for revenue lost after he repealed the vehicle license fee.
The cuts would hack 10 percent from Medi-Cal and freeze enrollment for all children in the Healthy Families program with separate caps for citizen and undocumented children.
Healthy Families is a scheme providing insurance for 677,000 children from low-income families throughout the state, and the proposed cuts could leave 130,000 children on an insurance waiting list in the first year, according to figures obtained from the state Department of Finance.
Women without legal immigrant standing will lose access to prenatal care, long-term care and treatment for breast and cervical cancer, health groups at a Mission district press conference said. This group is most vulnerable to the cuts, said Gladys Sandlin, executive director of the Mission Health Center. Many illegal women are working multiple jobs to keep their heads above water, she said, and would be most hit by the cuts.
"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right."
Activists argue that barring low-income immigrants access to the programs won't save the state much cash and will end up costing California more when sick families are forced to resort to the hospital emergency room.
Young single mom Raquel Cardenas is stressed at the thought of her 11-month-old daughter Erely catching this season's virulent strain of flu because the San Francisco Health Plan they rely on may become a casualty of funding cuts.
"It would be devastating for us to have to find our own doctor because I only work part time and I couldn't afford $1,000 bills," she said. "If he cuts us, we'll only be spending more time in the [hospital] emergency room."
You must work for a Union. You just told me something I already know and it's totally useless.
Then you're either Kevin Curry or just stupid and rude.
Who is Kevin Curry? ...and don't you know it's not polite to talk about yourself so much?
So sod off, you incomprehensibly annoying twit.
I present to you the face of a monster:
"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right." Gladys Sandlin.
Ms. Sandlin thinks that she has a right to your money so she can spend it as she sees fit. Never mind what you think about it.
Please permit me to logically disect Ms. Sandlins position just a bit further.
If treatment under 'Medical' is indeed a fundamental right guaranteed to anyone who manages to dive across the California border, then God help the poor California taxpayer.
Ms. Sandlin would make of her fellow Citizens slaves, and she seems to be perfectly willing to allow the State Government to use force to accomplish her goals. That's the only way this 'right' can logically be 'excersized' after all.
Here's the scenario:
A person, whether or not they are legal US and California citizen is irrelavent, arrives at a place of business which employs physicians and demands service. However, our hypothetical person cannot pay for said service. He or she claims as a 'right' to a certain amount of the physicians time and expertise.
The physician in question is required by Law to render service. Refusing to do so can be punished by fines or ultimately imprisonment.
Further, the average Citizen of California is required by Law to pay for this physicians time during this entire maddeningly illogical excersize is a crime. Refusing to pay for this can be punished by fines and ultimately imprisonment.
Change the place of business from a physicians office to, oh let's say, an auto mechanic and the absurdity of it all becomes immediately apparent. Don't like the mechanic analogy? No problem, we'll change it to a dry cleaners then, or a barber, or a restaurant, or your local department store.
I may be wrong here, but I think we pretty much settled this whole issue about who can demand labor from another human being without paying them for it about 140 years ago or so. I'm pretty sure we passed a Constitutional Amendment against it.
Now, I don't have a dog in this whole McClintock v. Schwarneggar thing. Personally, I never saw a dimes worth of difference between 'em. No matter who was elected, fully 70% of Californias spending is mandated by Referendum and just about untouchable during the budget process.
What this article does magnificently illustrate is the mindset which led to the 'problem'. California, and indeed most of the United States, has been breeding monsters like Ms. Sandlin who think that somehow they actually own a piece of you, and by logical extension, me.
Realizing that this kind of thinking is epidemic in this country scares the shit out of me. It should do the same to all of you.
L
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
Even though I live in Indiana, I have been watching your efforts to un-do the policies the Democrats enacted that have turned California into a fiscal basket case.
As a staunch fiscal Conservative, I applaud your move to terminate health care benefits for illegal aliens. No democracy has ever survived long after the electorate discovers that they can vote themselves bread and circuses, and removing the unproductive from the public trough is what needs to be done if we are to rescue this great nation from the waking nightmare that is socialism.
"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right."
Oh, this one REALLY frosts me. "Women without legal immigrant status" crying about their "rights", and Medical is a "right". So people here ILLEGALLY have the RIGHT to pick our pockets for medical care? I guess this is what happens when you have leftists in charge for so long that perceptions of what someone's rights arebecome completely warped
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