[Cat loving Texan]

Something to look forward to from another helpless lecherous citizen.

[P-40]

the preventive health care that the federal government guarantees them under Medicaid

In a sensible world, their complaint would have to be taken up with the federal government, not the state government. We could throw in the costs associated with rampant illegal immigration as part of the complaint also.

[JoeSixPack1]

Medicaid = The Ultimate Prize.

[Froufrou]

""We're confident that care is available and accessible for the vast majority of children on Medicaid whose families are seeking services."

It's not enough that ALL the Medicaid offices are on buslines, or that they can call for an application to be mailed to them. If this lawyer ramrods this thing it will be a travesty. 'Making up' for benefits the children 'didn't receive' is ludicrous. For years, the CHIPs program has had surpluses because the stupid people won't get their lazy butts in to certify their kids!

[staytrue]

"There's no way to pay these children back for the benefits they've lost," said Susan Zinn, the plaintiffs' lawyer.

Yes there is. You increase taxes on the wealthy and give a lump sum distribution to the medicaid children.

[traviskicks]

"Everybody's in this budget trying to basically expand CHIP. . . expand this, expand that," Ogden said.
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Isn't Texax conservative?

[Texas_Jarhead]

"At stake in the Frew case is the health care of the 2 million Texas children now on Medicaid."

The state recently estimated that 750,000 children in Texas schools were either illegals or childern of illegals. I wonder how many of them can be counted in that 2 million figure...

[The Great RJ]

From 1980-1997 Medicaid had a provision called the "Boren Amendment" that allowed nursing homes to bring lawsuits against states for inadequate funding that resulted in quality of care below federal standards. Several states were successfully challenged in federal court. In 1998 state Medicaid agencies succeeded in having this provision removed.