Poor Health, Poor Health Care

This excellent post from Annotated Life is worth reading in full.

Poor Health, Poor Health Care The Medicaid Reform Commission, formed around a mandate to trim federal funding by $10 billion in the next five years, released preliminary findings of no surprise.

Clinton's 1996 Welfare Reform, a gutting of the New Deal-era social safety net, sent millions of Americans into financial uncertainty.

Naturally, the rolls of other public programs including Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare swelled to accommodate the dis-enrolled.

Comments

[Edie]

I appreciate the commendation, Jodi!

[Jodi]

You have a terrific blog--great annotations and readings of Lenin and Trotsky, terrific paintings, I look forward to reading it more in the future (and I've added to my cite list to encourage others to do so as well!)

[Virgil Johnson]

Jodi, I have always appreciated your posts - your thoughts are incisive, and your expression is simply powerful. I hope you are duly recognized in your circles - you do good, vital and needed work. I'm just greatful that you break it down so we can grasp things.

Of course, once again in your post you point to - people being the losers to cruel policies. Perhaps one day we will realise and practice obvious priorities - until people begin to see they disenfranchise themselves by electing people who only embrace an elite, compassion will slowly disappear. A once great nation will be no more - let's hope we will not have to experience the bottom.

[Jodi]

Virgil, thanks so much for your kind words--but they go to Edie at Annotated Life, a really terrific blog.