Money to feed disabled kids is cut
Florida's Medicaid agency has cut off payments for nutritional supplements for severely disabled children, saying it needs to control costs.
"In an effort to save money, Florida Medicaid officials have stopped paying for the feeding supplements for perhaps thousands of children who suffer from severe physical disabilities, have HIV or are dependent on kidney dialysis to survive, healthcare officials say. Most at risk, doctors say: children with severe disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, who cannot eat or swallow on their own and receive all their sustenance from feeding tubes connected directly to their stomachs. Earlier last week, Gov. Jeb Bush announced in his State of the State address that a top priority of his last year in office was to return $1.5 billion in tax money to Florida taxpayers".I sometimes use the term 'phony-Christians' to describe Republicans and this is definitely a time when that term is appropriate. You cannot get any greedier or be more niggardly than to cut off feeding supplements for severely disabled kids because you say you don't have enough and then turn around and say your biggest priority is to cut taxes by $1.5 billion. These Republicans are always bringing up God and Jesus when it benefits them or when they think the cameras are rolling but they'll be judged not by the amount of tax cuts they give but by the way the treat the neediest of us. You would think the phony bastards would know that. Or at least care.
