{"id":10885,"date":"2010-01-08T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-08T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:21:31","slug":"health-access-offers-a-grim-picture-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/health-access-offers-a-grim-picture-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Access Offers A Grim Picture of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Access California has <a href=\"http:\/\/health-access.org\/files\/preserving\/Damage%20Already%20Done%20-%2001-07-10.pdf\">issued a report (PDF)<\/a> about the impact of Medi-Cal cuts, and as devestating as you would think major cuts to services would be, yup, that&#8217;s what happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health care advocates estimate that California&#8217;s budget cuts have forced more than 450,000 Californians, including severely disabled people, to either pay for or go without dental care since July.<br \/>\n<br \/>*** **** ***<br \/>\n<br \/>Based on that calculation, the group estimated that since July more than 240,000 people who needed prescription coverage for eyeglasses no longer had it, and more than 100,000 didn&#8217;t have coverage for exams.<\/p>\n<p>The report estimated that more than 50,000 incontinent people lacked coverage for products to prevent sores and skin infections; 40,000 were not covered to go to a podiatrist and 14,000 lacked coverage to get a hearing aid. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/2446882.html\">SacBee<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will it take until we turn this around? Well, you don&#8217;t have to look too far in the past. In Maryland, Deamonte Driver, a 12 year old boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/27\/AR2007022702116.html\">died because he did not get dental care<\/a>. After spending $250,000 for what should have been an $80 extraction, Deamonte died.<\/p>\n<p>California shouldn&#8217;t need to sacrifice a child to understand the costs of our budget policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Access California has <a href=\"http:\/\/health-access.org\/files\/preserving\/Damage%20Already%20Done%20-%2001-07-10.pdf\">issued a report (PDF)<\/a> about the impact of Medi-Cal cuts, and as devestating as you would think major cuts to services would be, yup, that&#8217;s what happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health care advocates estimate that California&#8217;s budget cuts have forced more than 450,000 Californians, including severely disabled people, to either pay for or go without dental care since July.<br \/>\n<br \/>*** **** ***<br \/>\n<br \/>Based on that calculation, the group estimated that since July more than 240,000 people who needed prescription coverage for eyeglasses no longer had it, and more than 100,000 didn&#8217;t have coverage for exams.<\/p>\n<p>The report estimated that more than 50,000 incontinent people lacked coverage for products to prevent sores and skin infections; 40,000 were not covered to go to a podiatrist and 14,000 lacked coverage to get a hearing aid. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/2446882.html\">SacBee<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will it take until we turn this around? Well, you don&#8217;t have to look too far in the past. In Maryland, Deamonte Driver, a 12 year old boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/27\/AR2007022702116.html\">died because he did not get dental care<\/a>. After spending $250,000 for what should have been an $80 extraction, Deamonte died.<\/p>\n<p>California shouldn&#8217;t need to sacrifice a child to understand the costs of our budget policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}