race to diagnosis
2010-Feb-17, Wednesday 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI believe that the world (the whole universe, actually) lacks all the resources that are desired. Meaning... every desire cannot be fulfilled. Some want has to go unfulfilled.
Minnesota is facing severe budget shortfalls. Our ideologue governor, however, promises not to sign for a single tax increase. Instead, he's in the habit of pushing costs downward to more local governments which then have to raise their taxes to compensate. The ideologue wins on a technicality. *disgruntled sigh*
He's now announced his most recent budget proposal. There are lots of cutbacks. Frankly, all of them seem disturbing. A followup article focuses specifically on the health care cuts.
That last sentence? That would be me.
The sad thing is that even all the harsh cutbacks still depend on receiving future federal money. They still depend on pushing true costs out into future state budgets. Both obvious signs of accounting hack jobs. (But don't you dare raise taxes, no, because that would destroy the republic.)
I go in next week for my EMG tests. I go see the neurologist two weeks after that.
It's a race to see if I can leech taxpayer money for my medical diagnosis before the money disappears.
Minnesota is facing severe budget shortfalls. Our ideologue governor, however, promises not to sign for a single tax increase. Instead, he's in the habit of pushing costs downward to more local governments which then have to raise their taxes to compensate. The ideologue wins on a technicality. *disgruntled sigh*
He's now announced his most recent budget proposal. There are lots of cutbacks. Frankly, all of them seem disturbing. A followup article focuses specifically on the health care cuts.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to cut a net of $347 million from programs for sick, aged, disabled and jobless people is akin to the advice an ailing George Washington got from his doctors 210 years ago, one critic said Monday: Bleed him, in hope of a cure.
Pawlenty would eliminate the General Assistance program in which about 20,000 disabled and very-low-income people receive an average of $175 a month.
He also would remove about 21,500 childless adults earning between $8,100 and $27,000 from MinnesotaCare, the health insurance program for lower-income working people.
- http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/84422862.html
Pawlenty would eliminate the General Assistance program in which about 20,000 disabled and very-low-income people receive an average of $175 a month.
He also would remove about 21,500 childless adults earning between $8,100 and $27,000 from MinnesotaCare, the health insurance program for lower-income working people.
- http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/84422862.html
That last sentence? That would be me.
The sad thing is that even all the harsh cutbacks still depend on receiving future federal money. They still depend on pushing true costs out into future state budgets. Both obvious signs of accounting hack jobs. (But don't you dare raise taxes, no, because that would destroy the republic.)
I go in next week for my EMG tests. I go see the neurologist two weeks after that.
It's a race to see if I can leech taxpayer money for my medical diagnosis before the money disappears.
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Date: 2010-Feb-17, Wednesday 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-Feb-18, Thursday 07:44 am (UTC)Honestly, where is all this money going? Other nations don't divert this much GDP to provide universal care. Are we using our medical dollars to feed lawyers? *big ignorant shrug*
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Date: 2010-Feb-18, Thursday 12:49 pm (UTC)