Sunday, January 30, 2011

The AZ Govt. vs human lives

After a long hiatus, I have decided to start writing on this blog again.
Circumstances in my adopted state have occurred that I just feel compelled to speak about. If you have been following me on Facebook, you know how I feel about the current governor and her staff. Today's story is typical.
In her "wisdom" and in an effort to fix the budget [you know that budget that she claimed to have balanced during the campaign], brewer cut transplant benefits from the AZ insurance plan, essentially dooming 98 citizens. Now she is proposing to cut further benefits from Medicaid, something she is not allowed to do and is trying to get permission from the Federal government to do so.
But if she does this, she is dooming more citizens. And what does she think is going to happen to those people without benefits? When they get ill, they will go to the emergency rooms of our state where they will be cared for. Then those hospitals will be forced to absorb those costs because there will be no insurance coverage. It's a never ending cycle.
Maybe instead of spending time mounting frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to repeal the new health care reform bill or trying to start new legislation attempting to get only people with AZ-approved birth certificates on the ballots, brewer and her legislature should spend time fixing our budget so that ALL Arizonans are cared for.