I received these two alerts about Medicaid patients at Crozer and PA
adult basic. This loss of medical providers will soon explode across the
country. While the charade of increased junk health insurance runs its
course, the poor and lower classes are targeted to lose most access to
medical care.
For the sake of brevity, existing programs like Medicaid are being
sabotaged. More people will be eligible for these programs but will be
quietly refused on a daily basis. This started before the health
insurance bailout.
These government cuts to reimbursements, which are happening now, are
the "savings" and "waste" that will be transferred to health insurance
companies for junk insurance for 30 million. Although emergency rooms
will get more crowded, as the middle class is transferred to junk
insurance (like me with Blue Cross); reimbursements for emergency rooms
are also to be "saved."
Yes, while we bask in the success of health reform, we are sitting on a
public health catastrophe and explosion of the previously reported
40,000 deaths per year. Copied from e-mail:
Effective May 1st 2010 Crozer-Keystone Health System will no longer
accept people on Medicaid!*
All 27,000 people on Medicaid that rely on those hospitals for care
will now have to travel out of Delaware County.
~This leaves only one hospital in all of Delaware County to provide
maternity care to these women.
~Over 9,500 Medicaid recipients will now lose access to their primary
care doctor.
~More than 17,000 people on Medicaid used a Crozer-Keystone specialist
last year, they will now have to travel to a different county to receive
care.
*Join us for a rally on Monday, May 3rd at 1:00 PM Outside
Crozer-Chester Medical Center at One Medical Center Blvd, Upland PA, 19013.*
If you're on Medicaid and use those hospitals, feel free to let us know.
*Contact Athena to RSVP/for more info at af...@philaup.org.*
/*In cases of a real emergency, Medicaid recipients can still use the
Crozer-Chester Hopistal system. Also, some patients on a specialized
course of treatment will be able to finish the treatment.
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adultBasic, an affordable health insurance program for low-income
Pennsylvanians is in jepordy! *If the program dies, it means 40,000
Pennsylvanians will lose their health insurance*. After all the work we
did this year to expand access to affordable, quality health care, we
can't let that happen.
The bill to protect adultBasic has been introduced and on Tuesday, May
4th 9:00 AM the House will hold hearings on it. We're hoping you can
help us pack that hearing with supporters!
