Bush strives to rein in Medicaid (Jeb)

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/22/State/Bush_strives_to_rein_.shtml

Bush strives to rein in Medicaid
The governor says if left unchecked, the program will swallow the state's budget. Critics contend the needy will lose their coverage.
By ALISA ULFERTS, Times Staff Writer
Published February 22, 2004

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TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush soon will dispatch a cadre of health care advisers to Washington to deliver a message: It's time to change Medicaid as we know it.

If Bush has his way, the 40-year-old national health care program for the poor no longer would be considered a government entitlement in Florida.

Instead, spending would be capped and some people who need health care coverage could no longer count on Medicaid.

It's a dramatic step, but one Bush says is needed to prevent Medicaid from gobbling up the state budget.

Florida spends almost $14-billion a year on Medicaid, and the cost increases each year.

"I'm frustrated by Medicaid," Bush recently told the St. Petersburg Times. "It grows by 10 percent per annum.


..more at article....

Well Jebbie if you did not allow your friends in the medical industry to go crazy with markups....

[cornermouse]

1. Let them eat cake.

(The new and improved version.)

[FlaGranny]

2. I've got the solution for Jeb -

Just take all the poor folks who are sick to Florida State football stadium, bring in the National Guard and machine gun them all. He will get the same result in the end, but it would be faster and more humane.

Bastards!!!

[rocktivity]

4. Jeb can't use the National Guard to kill the sick old people, FlaGranny

They're in Iraq.


rocknation

[Dirty Hippie]

3. Now I am thoroughly depressed

My (adult) son is on Medicaid in Florida. His medical condition will require many surgeries over the next couple of years. He is disabled, cannot work. SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO DO IF HE LOSES MEDICAID???

I could devote 100% of my income to his medical care and it would not come close to covering it.

[saigon68]

5. He can beg on the streets

Like the rest of the poor in Miami</Sarcasm>

As Jeb's motorcade rushes him to the AA Center to see the Heat.

[peekaloo]

6. Time for another tax break for his buddies.

:mad:

[ms_splash]

7. All the oldies from Florida with "JEB" bumper stickers

Driving around here in Western North Carolina.

They just make me sick.

Bush should really take care of his own...his own children, that is.

[GreenNADER]

8. jeb is a chimp puppet

the chimp has his hand up jeb's A$$.

[Unknown Known]

9. Snotty McClellan's brother, Mark, will head up Medicare/Medicaid revamp

Dr. Mark McClellan, head of the FDA, and responsible for push against Americans being able to buy cheaper meds from Canada and Mexico, is now being eyed by the BFEE to revamp Medicare/Medicaid - in other words, say good-bye to Medicare & Medicaid

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/images/20020925-4_p21881-15-th-515h.html