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Health-care cuts and the elderly
Jindal administration officials implored upon a Senate committee to restore some $131 million the House cut from the budget the governor submitted to the Legislature earlier this year.
At issue are cuts in state funding for health-care services for the elderly and the developmentally disabled, or cuts to the state's Medicaid program. The program is funded by a combination of state and federal funding.
Some $52 million in state funding would disappear thanks to the House-passed budget cuts. The remaining money, or some $79 million, represents federal funding made available to the state. That money won't be needed since the House cut the program for the elderly and the like.
Why the House chose to pick state funding for the elderly and developmentally disabled to cut from a proposed $30-billion budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year is a question members of the House should explain to their constituents on the home front, especially the people who will be directly affected by the cuts.
Before we castigate House members for picking on the elderly and the developmentally disabled, it is worth noting the budget cuts the House made could affect nursing homes and hospitals.
Anyone who has worked or volunteered in a nursing home to assist the elderly knows well that budget cuts passed along to nursing home operators often are passed along in cuts to services aimed at providing care for the patients, or the elderly.
We suspect any individual who possesses one ounce of compassion would agree it's unconscionable to cut services provided for the elderly who reside in a nursing home.
Yet, that's exactly what nursing home owners have been known to do when they've faced cuts in state funding aimed to care for the elderly.
It's a profit versus loss mentality at the expense of the elderly, or in some cases, at the expense of the people who can't express their own opinion or disgust for the decisions made by their elected representatives.
Maybe the Legislature should bear that thought in mind before deciding how much money it appropriates or cuts from the state's Medicaid budget. |
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