Freepers celebrate decision to cut health benefits for poor women, kids

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Tue Dec-23-03 01:11 AM
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Freepers celebrate decision to cut health benefits for poor women, kids

Here's the orginial article and the reaction from the "pro-life, pro-family" freepers:

Young moms and concerned doctors on Thursday attacked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's mooted health cuts, saying they could devastate local services for low income, immigrant groups.

The activists accused Schwarzenegger of hypocrisy for running on a campaign of expanding health care coverage for children, then promptly announcing $2 billion in health cuts over two years to help compensate for revenue lost after he repealed the vehicle license fee.

The cuts would hack 10 percent from Medi-Cal and freeze enrollment for all children in the Healthy Families program with separate caps for citizen and undocumented children.

Healthy Families is a scheme providing insurance for 677,000 children from low-income families throughout the state, and the proposed cuts could leave 130,000 children on an insurance waiting list in the first year, according to figures obtained from the state Department of Finance.

Women without legal immigrant standing will lose access to prenatal care, long-term care and treatment for breast and cervical cancer, health groups at a Mission district press conference said. This group is most vulnerable to the cuts, said Gladys Sandlin, executive director of the Mission Health Center. Many illegal women are working multiple jobs to keep their heads above water, she said, and would be most hit by the cuts.

"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right."

http://www.sfexaminer.com/templates/story.cfm?displaystory=1&storyname=121903n_healthcare

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Read my lips, folks: We can't afford it. Get over it.
6 posted on 12/22/2003 9:25:35 PM PST by JoeFromCA

"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right."

BS. It's no right.
9 posted on 12/22/2003 9:26:06 PM PST by SCalGal

"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said."It's a right."

Please - show me where this right is enumerated. Another clueless knee-padder.
11 posted on 12/22/2003 9:27:10 PM PST by TomServo

Excellent move by the Governator.
14 posted on 12/22/2003 9:32:04 PM PST by Killborn (I'd rather have Big Bizniz than Big Guvmint.)

These "cuts" will infuriate the communists, socialsist, NannyState worshippers, and bed wetters. So what.
16 posted on 12/22/2003 9:33:13 PM PST by SkyPilot

To quote my father, "God never promised anyone a cadillac"
26 posted on 12/22/2003 9:40:14 PM PST by BOBWADE

This is supposed to be the land of opportunity, not the land of handouts.
30 posted on 12/22/2003 9:40:54 PM PST by BOBWADE

Illegals should not get health services, food stamps, welfare or anything else, especially not Social Security, they should get sent home.
52 posted on 12/22/2003 9:55:55 PM PST by GeronL

"I'm not asking for charity, Medi-Cal isn't charity," she said. "It's a right."

I'm gonna be sick.
54 posted on 12/22/2003 9:58:10 PM PST by Reagan is King (The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)