Medicaid expansion needed
Access to affordable health care has been particularly difficult for low-income women and families.
For that reason, as Arizona’s leading family planning program for almost 40 years, the Arizona Family Health Partnership strongly supports Governor Brewer’s proposal to expand Medicaid.
Expansion would mean that more:
• Women and families will be able to access family planning services and supplies;
• Women will receive preventive health services like mammograms and cancer screenings; and
• Women will receive breast and cervical cancer treatment.
Research shows that every dollar of public funding for contraceptive and preventive services saves $3.74 in costs for prenatal, pregnancy-related and medical care for newborns, or $3.4 billion that otherwise would have been borne by Medicaid.
Expanding Medicaid makes both financial and common sense.
Judy Walruff, Ph.D., MSW
President, Arizona Family Health Partnership Board of Directors
VofReason posted at 2:44 pm on Mon, Mar 18, 2013.
And the Democrats knowing full well helped many people and families become dependant on money, food and shelter from some government agency. Again, knowing full well that New Orleans is in direct path of hurricans in any given year. Then sort of stacked the deck. Again, knowing that many of the people dependant on government payment etc etc had no options for leaving in case of tragedy. What are they doing to ensure these folks are now gaining independence? Breaking the generational welfare chain? Getting them to a place where they are independant and have resources on their own accord to react in the face of natural disaster?
Abstract01 posted at 3:03 am on Sun, Mar 17, 2013.
Truth, who turned their backs on the victims of flooding in the midwest, and focused only on New Orleans and New York?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43199360/ns/weather/#.UUWUwlfhd8E
truth posted at 12:02 pm on Wed, Mar 13, 2013.
“I would say the Republican Party has said it is the party of family values," he said. "Last night it turned its back on the most essential value of all, and that is to provide food, shelter, clothing and relief for people who have been hit by a natural disaster. And I would say that the Republican Party has turned its back on those people."
VofReason posted at 11:54 am on Wed, Mar 13, 2013.
Life is sacred and a safty net should exist for people who need it. That said, any woman of child bearing age that personnally collects or is a dependant of a family that collects welfare should be required to go on timeframe contraception such as norplant. For whatever reason they have found themselves in the situation, it does not make sense to add another welfare recepint and perhaps permanent welfare chain to the equation. No?
Accuracy posted at 8:31 am on Wed, Mar 13, 2013.
You're right Leon Ceniceros.....
President Obama’s ObamaCare Medicaid expansion is “WELFARE” – for welfare participants to have 100 percent of their costs covered by the government.
Next, will be Obama’s “Welfare Waivers” to lessen the work requirements for those getting federal benefits – the Obama administration way of waiving work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law.
Rich posted at 7:52 am on Wed, Mar 13, 2013.
Unfortunately expanding any government program essentially means more and better compensated bureaucrats raising the cost with no significant improvement in service.
Abstract01 posted at 11:31 pm on Tue, Mar 12, 2013.
I am not a particularly selfish person, but for all the benefits that Dr. Judy describes, what do men get out of Medicaid?
And what are "preventative services"? Is that another description for abortions?
Does The "Comprehensive Healthcare Act", aka Obamacare, support and fund Medicaid?