http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/18/1371829/-Kansas-Holds-Hearing-on-Medicaid-Expansion-We-ve-Never-Seen-Anything-Like-It?detail=email
Today, the proponents of Medicaid Expansion had their say.
http://www.kansas.com/...
“With one stroke, you could reduce the number of uninsured in this state by almost a half,” said Jerry Slaughter, a physician testifying on behalf of the Kansas Medical Society in support of the bill.
The Affordable Care Act granted states the authority to expand Medicaid, which provides health coverage to poor and disabled Kansans. The federal government would fund 100 percent of the costs through 2016, then down to 90 percent by 2020.
What went unsaid was simple.. while one stroke could reduce the number of uninsured in Kansas - an uninsured person who had a stroke would quickly find themselves on the wrong end of bills they simply couldn't pay.
It was an unlikely witness that stirred buzz in the room, as Finn Bullers, a Prairie Village advocate, joined the hearing coming straight from the ICU, as he put it.
Finn, a former writer for the Kansas City Star has found himself at the center of the call for medicaid expansion and issues with KanCare.
https://mediakc.wordpress.com/...
Finn Bullers, a former Kansas City Star reporter, is making headlines for his fight against KanCare, the state’s Medicaid privatization plan, which he says will kill him. He was the subject on a Pitch cover story about KanCare’s impact on the poor, and has been featured by just about every news outlet in the city.
Bullers suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy and requires round-the-clock care. The state wants to reduce the number of hours a caretaker oversees Bullers – by 75 percent, according to KCUR – something he told a state panel could have deadly consequences.
“I hate to sound that dramatic,but if this tube comes off I’ve got two minutes tops — and then I die,” he said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
these stories of the additional adding of insult and abandonment to injury would not be an issue if not for those who come out against the red state governors who slapped their constituents more than Pres. by refusing expansion or ObamaCares, this is what we need what we should have been doing from day 1 but we failed to have faith in the guy we elected twice that makes no sense. even his admin might as well have turned their backs because they did. fearing those fooled by republican rhetoric they became those fearing the assumed ramifications of that same rhetoric, in short the Progressive platform was abandoned by everyone except Pres. and those of us who voted in 2014.
we know republicans have no shame IMO because they deny and refuse to believe the truth, but we do have empathy and shame and we need to acknowledge it, not drown ourselves in it but learn that we really f'd up. despite the republican propaganda machines success and our indifference he still IMO pulled off by himself the steps that lead to the greatest Pres. so far, name another who has done more for all of we the people with no one at his back.
they did these people no favor they misled about ACA and denied them life saving care because they want the Pres. to fail well those who failed were them and the people in those 22 states. recognize
