Jindal and Medicare

This won't be my most eloquent post, I am having trouble putting this into words.  I want to protect my source.

Due to the crap Bobby Jindal pulled with the medicare funds our elderly are being cut off of their pain medications, with no withdrawal treatment.

Jindal refused to expand Medicare so the state lost it's federal funding.  In Louisiana almost 65 cents of every  medicare dollar comes from the federal government.  Now these elderly in nursing homes are being denied coverage for their medications.

This is an update on this presently unpublished blog.  I posted the following on a conspiracy forum on Aug 20, 2012, I noticed yesterday it had been removed from my profile, just by accident I was looking for something else.  Well today August 25, 2012 it turns up on the forum under someone else's name.  I don't know if I should be flattered or concerned.

I spoke with a nurse from a local nursing home here in Louisiana, she told me her patients painkiller prescriptions are no longer being covered by Medicare. The patients are all suffering from withdrawals and the staff there is not equipped to deal with it.

Bobby Jindal turned down the AHA and Louisiana lost 5 million in Medicare funding because of it. Louisiana is so poor we receive over 60 cents on ever dollar we spend on Medicare from the federal government. The main reason he turned this down was in hopes of getting the VP nomination from Mitt.

I suggest you check on your elderly if you live in a state where your Republican governor turned down the AHA.

Even before this Jindal had made deep cuts into the LSU Medical System which provides low cost care to the uninsured. A friend went to the ER of one recently while suffering a stroke, they had no room in the ICU or a bed on a floor for him so they put him on a cot in the ER for 24 hours to watch him. What he witnessed that night was gorilla health care. A 69 year old woman that has worked as a cook all her life came in with a broken leg. They had no staff to x-ray her so they could not put a cast on her, they were going to give her crutches and a boot but there were none to be found, so the doctors made a homemade splint for her and told her to go to another hospital 150 miles away. They also had no pediatrics staff available, so if you had a sick baby you were out of luck.

This is what our system of medical care has given us. Life saving medical care should not only be for those that can afford a $500 a month premium or are lucky enough to have coverage provided by your employer.

This is what 60 years of the insurance racquet running our medical system has given us. Insurance companies are not in the business of providing health care they are in the business of denying health care.

I hear people say they don't want to pay for someone else's health care, well when people have to seek emergency care and are unable to pay, we all pay for it in the form of higher health care costs. So you end up paying for it one way or the other. Why not provide them preventive health care and bring down the costs? We would have a healthier and stronger nation. When socialized medicine was introduced in Europe employers found there were significant fewer sick days taken resulting in huge savings, not to mention healthier and happier more productive workers.

When the AHA goes into effect in 2014 the cost of insurance premiums will drop. There will be more people in the insurance pool thus costs will drop. We saw the same thing happen when they allowed the auto insurance industry to sell across state lines. This will be an even larger impact due to more people buying insurance and there will be more competition.
Actually when you look at it the AHA is just a big ol present tied up in a bow for the insurance companies.

The way things stand now, when the uninsured can go to the ER and not pay for their treatment, the hospital and doctors just pass that loss on to the rest of us in the form of higher charges. If you don't think you are not already paying for the medical treatment of others you are delusional. At least with AHA everybody will be responsible for obtaining coverage for themselves.

The cost of healthcare in the US is the highest in the world and we are number 37 in quality of care. I don't believe AHA is a perfect answer but it is a hell of a lot better than what we have at present.