[Education and Welfare] a few thoughts on suppositions behind thebudget transfer issue

[Mary Pendleton]

Agree but it would be very helpful if MCB got what theirdollars were rapidly 
going out for our attorney and that is updates once in a while.
Perhaps we should take a vote on whether to drop it since it has gone on for 
so long.
Maryhelful
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Subject: [Education and Welfare] a few thoughts on suppositions behind 
thebudget transfer issue


All,

I am thankful for our discussion on the budget transfer and cutting proposal 
for State Medical/Medicaid.

I’ve been a little quieter on writing these past couple days, partially 
because of attending to needs back here in Kansas City and discussing 
blindness issues on other lists.

Yet, as much as we wish to maintain our fervor in opposing the proposed 
budget transfer from Medicaid/State Medical, we need to proceed but with 
some caution.

It’s better to work with the details and evidence we have. I understand we 
want to find the diamond in the rough or the treasure under a rock. But, we 
do not help ourselves by suspecting certain issues. I wil research to see if 
there is any evidence or correlation between the Bild Pension Lawsuit and 
the proposed budget transfer. Right now, there is no evidence. It does not 
help our case to wonder if suax grinding is in the works.

We simply have Rep. Silvey’s explanation, which does cause us much concern.

It is better that we work with the explanation given and any research that 
can uncover facts. Remember Ann Coulter words from her book DEMONIC, about 
mobs. Mobs often overstate cases, even if they may have some kernel of truth 
to them.

I’m not saying we’re a mob. I’m saying that we do well to proceed and speak 
from the presentation of evidence, not circumstance.
It’s easy to put ourselves opposite an idea that we construct. That makes 
negotiations more difficult. It makes working with the given facts in a case 
more difficult.

I encourage all of us to reread Chris Gray’s letter to the Senators on the 
Portman Amendment. WE need to have that forthrightness combined with clarity 
and demonstrated accuracy when confronting the Medicaid/State Medical at 
hand. I’m looking forward to the rally tomorrow. I’m hoping we can make more 
progress and that ABC wil, indeed, be there to catch the whole thing on 
camera.

David Rosenkoetter
Kansas City, MO



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