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by Bruce Allison/City Hall Resistance Beat
At 9am August 9, 2009, this reporter went to a meeting with about 20 other people. Most of it was about the cuts that Governor
did to the Healthcare budget and due to the mistake he did by using
the money while cutting the budget at the same time. So it was taken
by the Gray Panther‚ and Senior Action Network lawsuit was placed by
them. These groups with other groups sued the Governor for violating
the stimulus money from the U.S. government. It says that no money
shall be taken out of any of the health programs that is already
there. So the Governor removed health plans as dental, podiatry,
vision and others.
As I gave my speech about the cut in in-home supportive services and
the finger printing as the cost of this will cost $10,000,000 dollars
for a chance of fraud of 1% for all in-home supportive services for
the whole state.
Due to the Governors fear that there are 30% fraud. At this time he is
totally wrong. According to the Director of the Public Authority of
San Francisco County who runs all homecare in the City of San
Francisco ‚ Donna C. and Tony Nico the Director of Homecare for D.O.S.
[Department of Social Services] agrees ‚ that its only 1%.
At the rally, the final speaker came up. He was a gentleman in a wheel
chair with diabetes. Because of the governors cuts, he cant get his
toenails cut medically. Due to the cuts, they took away his so-called optional services. His only other option is one of two that is deadly and dangerous. One is to have his home care worker, who isn't
trained, cut it for him. Because he is diabetic, if they are cut wrong, he may lose his feet. The second option is for him to cut them
himself, which in this disability and elder scholar is the least
practical and safe option. If he gets gangreen, it will cost the
state $20,000 to treat him--do the math, people. The next day, I
found out that the optional services will be restored in two weeks.
The money that is needed to generate the rainy day fund is still
being negotiated. Stay tuned because Bad News Bruce will keep you
updated
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