While it would seem a mean thing to say that Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott is so heartless that he'd kick sick kids to the curb … well, that's precisely what the state is doing:
'The Miami Herald obtained thousands of pages of health department documents under the state's public records law, including nearly 800 emails and hundreds of memos and reports that detailed the state's plan to "restructure" CMS. They show that the elimination of children from CMS was the result of a plan to slash spending on sick kids at a time when Florida had a $635.4 million surplus. For the legislative session that begins next month, Gov. Rick Scott has proposed $1 billion in new tax cuts. The spending plan would eliminate an additional 718 health department positions.'
Because sick kids be damned, we've got tax cuts to make happen!
State purges 9,000 children from medical system in cost-saving overhaul
Six-year-old Aref Shabaneh is almost entirely blind, able to read only in Braille, walks with a cane, and is so sensitive to light his parents turn them off when he’s home. For two years, he was enrolled in a taxpayer-funded health care program that provided specialists to help protect what little is left of his eyesight.
I live in FloriDuh. Don't know a soul that voted for him. BTW: tax cuts for his buddies, not people.
But even narrow, targeted tax cuts, for a few very select people, are a MORAL IMPERATIVE, because AMERICA! (See also: Galbraith http://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/7463/)