I wanted to tell another side to the story that you might not be hearing politically. I won't try to sway your political leanings one way or the other but allow you to make your own mind up.
(And one thing I personally despise is someone coming to me & telling ME how or who I must be or feel.)
The Washington state governor is proposing to cut medicaid patients access to healthcare. They are also proposing to cut in March 2011 access to medications. They also have adult hospice, adult vision & dental care in the cross hairs.
There is more if you want to read the September 30, 2010 press release on the subject:
(http://www.dshs.wa.gov/mediareleases/2010/pr10088.shtml )
Now I do believe that DSHS has to absorb its fair share of cuts. In this economy, the state simply does not have the money to deliver every expectation a citizen has. And there are lobby forces at the state capital at work on just about every single issue trying to muster up the political will for its own causation.
But what I have a problem with is that they take certain medical care things LIKE podiatry or other basic life medical care (sorry my bias but I had to have this. Read my last entry as to why.) and call it "optional care?" Is it optional that I must seek podiatry care to stay out of a wheelchair?
in the following weeks before I have to move, I am going to be calling upon my state legislators (who by the way, they won in the perspective districts this past week) to talk to them about my medical situation. Maybe they can find it somewhere else to come up with the 400 thousand dollars to save my podiatry treatments. I know that there are going to be a lot of push and pull from many other sides to cut taxes and spending. By my life hangs in the balance if this continues.
