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01/16/2004 Entry: "Schwarzenegger watch: The outrage continues!"

"Instead, the governor is proposing a host of cuts and reforms. General fund spending for Medi-Cal would increase overall in 2004-05 by $1.6 billion for a total expenditure of $31.2 billion, including special and federal funds. But various individual programs would be reduced.

"Children's medical services funded by the Department of Health Services would be cut by $43 million, and recipients of the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program, a subprogram estimated to serve 1,679 clients next year, would be charged co- payments like those paid by carriers of private health insurance. Users of this program and the California Children's Services program, which serves almost 38,000, would cap enrollment.

"California offers more optional Medi-Cal benefits than any other large state, and Schwarzenegger wants to implement an as-yet undetermined co-payment for certain services, create a multitiered system where certain insurance packages are available to recipients depending on need, and eliminate the state's practice of offering services to residents whose income is above poverty level."
Welfare cuts toe GOP line. Slashing services likely to set off partisan budget battle in Capitol, by David M. Drucker, PressTelegram, January 12, 2004

At which point they can get sick and slip below the poverty level. And through the cracks and out of sight, which is exactly what the rabid right wants to happen.

Ahnold, you're being used like the tool you are.

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