Phony Bars to Medical Care
Medicaid Hurdle for Immigrants May Hurt Others
By ROBERT PEAR
Officials fear that a new law will prevent poor people who
are unable to come up with citizenship documents from
receiving Medicaid benefits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/us/16medicaid.html?th&emc=th
..................
Ours is a reasonably well organized academic family, but more than once over the years with moves and whatnot, we have misplaced and had to write away and pay the charges to replace a lost birth certificate. I would imagine that many a person does not have access to this document created at or near the date of his/her birth.
It is, therefore, intentionally morally obscene for those who can figure this one as a common problem for many, if not most of us, to set this bar to medical care into law.
Needless to say, Americans visiting foreign countries (e.g. both of my daughters studying/doing volunteer service respectively in Italy and Britain) faced no such problem as 'aliens' in receiving not only low cost but free medical care in these typical European countries, as did my wife and me as students at Oxford way back in the late 1950s.
Only in Amerika!
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
By ROBERT PEAR
Officials fear that a new law will prevent poor people who
are unable to come up with citizenship documents from
receiving Medicaid benefits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/us/16medicaid.html?th&emc=th
..................
Ours is a reasonably well organized academic family, but more than once over the years with moves and whatnot, we have misplaced and had to write away and pay the charges to replace a lost birth certificate. I would imagine that many a person does not have access to this document created at or near the date of his/her birth.
It is, therefore, intentionally morally obscene for those who can figure this one as a common problem for many, if not most of us, to set this bar to medical care into law.
Needless to say, Americans visiting foreign countries (e.g. both of my daughters studying/doing volunteer service respectively in Italy and Britain) faced no such problem as 'aliens' in receiving not only low cost but free medical care in these typical European countries, as did my wife and me as students at Oxford way back in the late 1950s.
Only in Amerika!
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
posted by Ed Kent at 7:17 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home