When you immediately cutoff dental and vision care to hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians and without thought to the impact of those who are still expected to receive care, the results are catastrophic.
There’s plenty of confusion in Kentucky right now, as children and pregnant women seeking dental and vision care are being turned away by doctors:
The Kentucky Oral Health Coalition said in a statement it has received about a half-dozen reports directly from dentists that the cuts were resulting in "denial of routine dental care of eligible children and pregnant women."
"Though these populations were supposed to be protected from coverage changes, errors have meant that children who show up for a dental visit have been turned away with unmet dental needs unnecessarily," the statement said.
Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, said his organization also had received reports of denials of such care from "numerous dental providers across the state."
Kentucky Youth Advocates provides staff for the oral health group, a coalition of dental health providers and advocates.
The Courier Journal on Tuesday night reported that some dentists said they had to turn away children and pregnant women after they were mistakenly showing up in the state's computer system as having no dental coverage — even though they were supposed to be exempt from the cuts.
This is exactly what happens, when you arbitrarily and cruelly cut off coverage to nearly 500,000 Kentuckians. Bevin lost his Medicaid work requirements case and decided to punish Kentucky.
These children and pregnant women will eventually receive their exemption for their dental and vision benefits, but hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians will not be so lucky and continue to suffer under Bevin’s evil rule.
Matt Bevin’s attack on health care is a cruel and just like Donald Trump, they don’t care about the negative impact on the lives of ordinary Americans.