Senator Kerry has a diary up about Sarah Palin now but his diary is about Palins ridiculous OpEd. This issue is way beyond that. As FireDogLake and the Anchorage Daily News have a real bombshell of a case.
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life -- taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom -- are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements....
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
Feds restrict Alaska health programs, Sarah Palin’s Medicaid Scandal: Letting People Die While Waiting
Right now in Alaska there is over 2000 people waiting just to be assessed as to if they need help. I can tell you from my own exp. that people rarely, if ever, apply for this type of help until it's way past the time they need it. My Wife has a fulltime Caregiver and I had to fight with her to let me bring someone into our home to help with her needs. Due to Arnolds games with the Ca. budget we wonder every day how long that will last. Arnold has been a disaster but as of today he has yet to be the cause of anyones death that I know of. I can't say the same thing for Sarah after reading about those she has harmed while going fishing instead of doing her job.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she's so weak, she often can't even pop dinner into the microwave.
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
Sarah has been so busy being the Republicans Media Diva, going on her huge Shopping Sprees, Writing a Book, Shooting Wolves and Moose, and just plain going fishing and Snowmobiling that she had no time to worry about those she took a oath to protect and serve. I'm not a lawyer but this seems to me a good case for voluntary manslaughter or at the least involuntary manslaughter. Both my wife and I are disabled like those Sarah choose to ignore and I can tell you the amount of fear and stress we are going thru over Arnold budgets costs us many a sleepless night, but compared to Sarah I almost have to give the man a pat on the back for not screwing up ass bad as Sarah.
Nyceve has a ongoing series known as Death By Spreadsheet. In this case this scandal should become known as Death By Republican Governor. Over and over we hear those on the Right talk about how bad the government is run and how they can't be trusted with our Health Care. This has turned out to be true, but only where the Republicans are in charge of running said government. It's as if they have set out to prove their claims with no regard to the deaths and pains they cause. This is who the Right wants for our next President. Are you scared yet ?