This is how health care rationing works. Some bureaucrat, our wonderful Governor in this case, has to save a few bucks and it is people like the Mabrys that suffer for the incompetence. Some years ago, the state decided that a great way to save money would be to get out of the mental health care business. Sort of. You see, they decided that it was absolutely necessary that they retain some control over the system, so they just held the purse strings while outsourcing treatment to private providers. I’m all for the private operators providing care, but the state has terribly mismanaged the whole process. The whole system functions sort of like Medicaid, with the state paying for treatment in amounts they deem appropriate. It doesn’t work. There are constant backlogs, people can’t get service and many simply walk away. The state insists on oversight of the care of these people and apparently, oversight includes not providing services when it is inconvenient for them.
It looks like Obama’s health care plan is dead, or at least on its last legs. I truly hope that someone soon, I don’t care who or which party, takes up reform again in the very near future and fixes the whole mess. A big first step in fixing it will be getting the government all the fuck the way out of it.
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