Death panels: Coming soon to a state near you

[KamaAina]

especially if you're near Arizona or Indiana.

The latest from the Hoosier State:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101209/ts_yblog_thelookout/after-budget-cuts-indiana-baby-denied-life-saving-treatment

An Indiana baby needs life-saving surgery, but the state health care agency -- whose budget was slashed this year -- won't pay for it.

Six-month-old Seth Petreikis suffers from complete DiGeorge syndrome, which keeps him from developing a thymus, an infection-fighting glandular organ. He needs a transplant that's been pioneered by a specialist at Duke University in North Carolina. But the procedure costs $500,000, and the state's Family Social Services Administration won't pay for it under the state's Medicaid, reports the Northwest Indiana Times. It claims that the treatment is "experimental" -- even though 58 of 60 children to receive it have survived.

We last wrote about Indiana's FSSA after some of its staffers told parents to drop off their developmentally disabled children at homeless shelters. The parents had failed to receive schedule Medicare waivers to pay for care, after Gov. Mitch Daniels -- who is now weighing a possible 2012 GOP presidential run -- cut the agency's funding to deal with a budget shortfall.

As we've reported, Arizona, suffering from its own budget crunch, has cut funding for certain medical transplants for people with diseases such as leukemia and hepatitis B.

:grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

[Angry Dragon]

1. Death panels brought to you by the republicans

there is some blood on your hands sarah palin
and it is not from some caribou that you killed