[Education and Welfare] Medicaid Cuts

[Julie Chinn]

I mentioned this to someone else, but I am going to say it again.  This is
an election year, is it not?  Do they want to alienate the blind, their
family, friends, and supporters?  We are a very large group of voters
here!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: ew-bounces at moblind.org [mailto:ew-bounces at moblind.org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Gray
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 4:42 PM
To: Education and Welfare
Subject: Re: [Education and Welfare] Medicaid Cuts

Good for you, RIck.  It will be very important to hold our
representatives accountable for their justifications and their actions.

A standard that says a blind person must fall below the poverty threshold
to get state medicaid is pretty grim.

Chris

On
Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Rick Burch wrote:

> David and all,
>
> I am making attempts to discuss Medicaid cuts with my state
representative,
> Rick Stream.  I have made several calls to his office and left my phone
> number and left my concerns on his voice mail.  He has not returned my
> calls.  I then called City Hall here in Kirkwood and told them my
concerns,
> and they, in turn, contacted Rick Stream.  He told Kathy Valentine at the
> mayor's office that the Medicaid cuts would not affect me unless I made
over
> the poverty level.  He told Kathy that he would be happy to talk with me
> about this.  To my knowledge, just receiving the Blind Pension is
> approximately $200 below the poverty level.  If you receive Social
Security
> with the Blind Pension, I would assume that you are over the poverty
level.
> This is one of the questions I have.  As of this time, I have not heard
from
> representative Stream.
>
> Also, I asked representative Stream to submit the legislation, which came
> out as House Bill 1413.  However, he has actually done very little to help
> us with the bill and it was not submitted to the speaker for assignment to
a
> committee until we forced their hand.  I feel that there is something
going
> on here that is not very nice for blind people.
>
> I would like for you to reiterate what you had said concerning Rick
Stream's
> stand on the Medicaid cuts.
>
> Rick Burch
>
>
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