More Cuts to Health Care?

Following recent events, at the risk of preaching too much on this blog, there are some things that I need to say about what is going on.

The Arizona State Legislature is proposing cuts to AHCCCS AGAIN. This is a time when we should be coming together as a community and looking to try to find ways to care more for each other, and the Legislature and Governor Brewer are doing the EXACT OPPOSITE. In recent events, we should have learned how precious life and health are to one another, in the wake of this, moving to cut people off from health care is beyond reprehensible. I don't even think there is an appropriate adjective.

I also find irony in this. One reason Republicans have said they oppose the new health care bill is that it would effectively form a "death panel" where the plan would choose who should get care or not, but the Arizona State Legislature is doing the EXACT SAME THING. Cutting off transplant recipients from funding, effectively giving them a death sentence, when they had done nothing wrong. How many people have actually DIED because of this? If a health care company did something similar, there would be a huge outcry! All interviews I have seen cite STUDIES, nobody has mentioned that they were a doctor, nobody has mentioned that they examined these poor people, or even spoke to their physicians, they decided this based on a STUDY!

That coupled of the burdens that they are placing on the families with disabled children, I just don't understand how they think this serves the citizens of this state. They need to remember that the "people" on these plans are citizens that vote, and their duty should be to serve them, not blindly try to serve the"budget". Everyone they are talking about are the "people of Arizona" as well. Politicians may express the opinions of some of us, but it is DEFINITELY NOT all of us, and I resent that they make statements about the "people of Arizona" because that implies I am in that group, and I assure you I am not.