States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable
PHOENIX — Battered by the recession and the deepest and most widespread budget deficits in several decades, a large majority of states are slicing into their social safety nets — often crippling preventive efforts that officials say would save money over time.
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Perhaps nowhere have the cuts been more disruptive than in Arizona, where more than 1,000 frail elderly people are struggling without home-care aides to help with bathing, housekeeping and trips to the doctor. Officials acknowledge that some are apt to become sicker or fall, ending up in nursing homes at a far higher cost.
Ohio and other states face large cutbacks in child welfare investigations, which may mean more injured children and more taken into foster care. Despite tax increases, California has ended dental coverage for adults on Medicaid, all but guaranteeing future medical problems.
“There’s no question that we’re getting short-term savings that will result in greater long-term human and financial costs,” said Linda J. Blessing, interim chief of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, expressing the concerns of officials and community agencies around the country. “There are no good options, just less bad options.”
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I feel sorry for the elderly affected by this. The root of the problem though for most of them is that their families should not have left it up to somebody else to care for them to begin with. We must start caring for our elderly and disabled at home again. I worked in the Indiana medicaid system for 6 years and I can tell you that alot of these families with disabled kids just dump their mentally handicapped kids on social services waiver system and forget about them. It isn't fair to the rest of us.
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ReplyDeleteMost social programs that were due to be slashed are back on the table and in certain cases some of those programs were stopped because of the falling rate of poverty as the economy recovers and unemployment falls. The budget deficit of most states are now narrowing.
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11:19 do you have a link to an article or any data that suggests falling state deficits? Haven't heard anything about it and I scour alot of news sources.
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