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Rebekah Casey of Hayden (pictured in Eye On Boise photo) was one of the individuals who testified about Medicaid cuts before the Idaho Legislature budget committee this morning (she's one pictured in Eye on Boise link). Betsy reports on 
Rebekah's testimony: “My husband and I have adopted two children through the foster care system. My daughter has been receiving PSR services for almost two years now.” The youngster struggles, she said. “Without the PSR services … we would not have been able to maintain her in our home.” Over the summer, Casey said, her daughter suffered a crisis, and was unable to obtain additional psycho-social rehabilitation services due to the new 5-hour cap on such services for children. “Instead we were forced to consider medicating our 4-year-old daughter, when therapy services would have been sufficient,” Casey told lawmakers. More here.
Question: Should the Idaho Legislature restore Medicaid cuts?
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MJHart on February 03 at 11:55 a.m.
Why would they? They have medical care and most of them probably care about the very poor about as much as Mitt Romney. To answer the question though, yes they should.
Norther on February 03 at 12:08 p.m.
No. Any and all surplus funding should go directly to schools.
Note_to_Self on February 03 at 1:39 p.m.
Isn’t life beautiful? The GOP will fight for children in the womb, but not so much after they are born, especially those born with disabilities, then you’re on your own. A lot of people are going to fall throgh the cracks on this one.
Norther on February 03 at 1:43 p.m.
“The GOP will fight for children in the womb, but not so much after they are born” - Note
mean and basely untrue.
Note_to_Self on February 03 at 4:09 p.m.
Go look at the GOP/tea party proposed cuts for all the programs benefitting woman and children.
Here are just a few:
Earned income tax credits
Community Health Centers
the WIC progam
food stamps
school lunch programs
headstart, early start and child care development block grants
medicaid
family planning services
I could go on and on
For the pro-life majority in the House of Representatives the protection of life begins at conception and ends at birth. That’s not mean, its a fact.