Over the next few weeks, I’ll be heading back out to talk to people who will be dealing with the realities of council service cuts now that those cuts have been agreed.
On Monday, I’ll be talking to Lancashire parents of adult people with disabilities. They’re dealing with new charges for care and tightened eligibility criteria. One parent is particularly concerned about cuts to the charity groups which provide his son’s nursing care. Other parents are concerned about the council’s proposals to close care respite homes for children. They say their fight is not over yet.
I’ll also be talking to users of The Grange daycentre for people with disabilities in Shropshire. They are waiting to find out when their centre will be closed. And I’ll also be talking to a number of disabled users representation groups about actions they’re taking to challenge agreed council cuts. People say they refuse to accept their services are finished.
Will update this post over the weekend.
I go with the latter.Devon Herrick a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas Texas noted this is a nationwide problem.Texas doctors like doctors across the country often find they cannot treat Medicaid patients because government reimbursements are so low compared to what private insurers pay explained Herrick. Most physicians could not earn a living if they treated only Medicaid patients. Thus they limit Medicaid patients to a small percentage of private-pay patients or decline to treat them at all.Medicaid Recipients Overuse ERsBailey says she does not believe cuts in Medicaid reimbursements will achieve the goal of reducing overall costs in either the short or long term.Patients on Medicaid are going to the ER when they cannot find a doctor who accepts Medicaid.