Posted on 04/13/2010 7:56:01 AM PDT by Whenifhow
RUSH: From Ft. Lauderdale: "A woman battling a cancer battle was dealt a surprise blow by Uncle Sam this month. Diana Smith has gone through six months of radiation and chemotherapy -- one week out of every month. She is in remission and had a donor for a transplant; being in remission is prerequisite for the transplant. But her hopes of receiving the transplant were dashed in March, when she says, the Social Security Administration contacted her -- without her soliciting it -- and told her that her three-year-old son was entitled to receive Social Security disability payments. Even though she didn't ask for it, she signed the form and received her son's first check check [sic]. In April, Medicaid canceled her universal health care policy because her income level had risen with her son's payments -- making her ineligible for the insurance program."
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CALLER: For 20 years I've been working in the Medi-Cal, Medicare veterans benefit field, and the story you were telling earlier is not an isolated event. That happens, has happened hundreds of times in my career.
RUSH: You mean the government will call, solicit Social Security in this case, Social Security supplemental payment, putting the patient above the eligibility line and losing her coverage from the government, Medicaid?
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CALLER: Right now the VA takes a year to get people medical care in some cases. This is not new. I've been telling people for years that in effect -- I know it's not technically correct -- but the death panels already exist because we have government bureaucrats somewhere sitting in an office who are making health care decisions and life-and-death decisions for people, and they don't know anything about what's going on.
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
Great Idea! Then we can post each and every one of these NONCARE incidents.
“REPEAL” Must be the word for 2010 elections.
Well, look on the bright side. At least she’ll be getting Dr. Obama’s “pill” instead of treatment. That’s should ease her pain and put her fears to rest.
Moreover, the 3 year old getting more “benefits” far outweighs the child’s mother being alive since our public schools will give the child a world class education focused on diversity and self esteem. No mother can provide that.
Also, the schools will teach the child the fundamentals of saving money, investing money, and compound interest so that the “increased benefits” will help provide a nest egg for when the child enters the adult years.
Extreme sarcasm is implied in the above post.
Poor Diana
maybe Bambi will invite your motherless son to stand beside him at his next bill signing photo op
(PS: Is your kid white? If so, maybe not)
sheesh, I thought it was HARD to get SS disability payments for a kid, something about this story stinks because an application MUST be made
Medicaid was an existing program. You have missed the forest for the trees. He is pointing out what we have in store for us under Obamacare.
“HMm, I would think her son’s disability money would be treated as being his money. As I understand it in speaking to friends who have special needs kids, once your child starts getting social security, parents need to document how the money is spent in case of an audit, however, no one said it would be treated as part of the parents’ income.”
It would be treated as family income which is what her Medicaid is also based on.
Getting rid of the kid as a dependent also probably wouldn’t work for the same reason...
There is a different point here.
One agency of government has either wittingly or unwittingly undermined her eligibility for the other. It is more to do about whether this is intentional and, thus, a rationing of care. That would be bad.
However, even if is unintentional, that would be incompetent. Either way, governmental failure is what makes their intrusion so bad in the first place.
It is an argument for less government that he makes indirectly, not for more of it.
Rush is suggesting that the government has a responsibility to pay.
It's still hypocrisy. You just happen to agree with Rush's politics.
No, there's not. Rush is playing politics, nothing more.
You are the only on this thread that perceived it that way but if that’s your view, OK.
So government-run health care is OK if it's an existing program and we should be mad when existing coverage is denied, but that's what we should expect when Obamacare is phased in....?
I don't think I'm the one missing the forest, FRiend....
According to one of the comments under the story, another woman is in a similar situation because her disability check, of $900 per month, kicked in and put her over the limit before she received her last two treatments.
It is hard to get SS disability under any circumstances. My Dad applied when his cancer got so bad he was unable to walk, and therefore unable to work. They turned him down, said something like, well, maybe he is crippled, but that doesn't mean he can't work. He went through three appeals and finally had to appear before a judge, who granted his application on the spot once he got a look at him. The faceless bureaucrat lotus-eaters never really looked at the facts, they just went with what they believed (or felt).
The medicaid rules are really draconian. If I understand it correctly, the patient & family’s incomes count & they have to spend down to absolutely nothing to be eligible. In CA you can’t even own a home & be eligible.
They probably would count your next door neighbor’s income against you if they could.
If you are illegal, all that changes in CA
Oh, well, of course. Silly me for forgetting about that.
I'm the only one who stated the obvious.
I know hatred is not healthy, and at this point, I need all the health I can muster—but I really, honestly do hate these people with a fervor. What they are doing is nothing short of raw, unadulterated EVIL.
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