Georgia is cutting off Medicaid for 17,000 elderly, disabled patients

[mfcorey1]

The state is terminating Medicaid assistance for about 17,000 poor elderly or disabled Georgians, it says, as lawyers for some of them say the move is a giant mistake.


The state Department of Community Health said the 17,000 had simply not responded to a renewal notice informing them how to continue their coverage. Patients interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution say they never got renewal notices, and their lawyers say their Georgia Gateway computer accounts show that no such notices were ever sent.Instead, they say, if they got any notice at all it was a cancellation notice.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-cutting-off-medicaid-for-000-elderly-disabled-patients/BVkxukL3aenklu1FZN93VJ/

[superpatriotman]

1. Sure, Georgia ...

Renewal notices nowhere to be found.

Cancellation notices right on time.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Ya know, it just shows how "prolife" they really are

They don't care!!! They just don't.

[a kennedy]

4. You hit it right on the head....pro life my ass.

This is just wrong.

[marble falls]

3. How Christian of them!

[Cattledog]

5. Kemp is behind all this.

[Doodley]

6. How many will die? Including poor, elderly, disabled Republicans?

[lpbk2713]

7. Compassionate conservatism at its finest.

Que the death panels.

[PA Democrat]

8. 17,000 people to be terminated didn't raise any alarm?

No one thought, gee, that seems odd that such a large number of people would not respond to a renewal notice?

No one checked that the notices were actually sent out?

Or is such callous disregard for the welfare of that many vulnerable citizens business as usual in Kemp's Georgia?

Now remind me about Kemp's claims to be "pro-life." Yeah, right.

[aikoaiko]

9. So much work to do in my little state.

What a shame.

[gratuitous]

10. A corrupt secretary of state installs himself as a corrupt governor

And hey presto! the governing ability of the state apparatus continues to worsen.