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« 4 students hospitalized after chemical sprayed in Central High classroom | Today | Pawtucket water main repaired » March 30, 2006Health care reps rally before General Assembly hearingPROVIDENCE -- Representatives from 11 health-care groups gathered for a rally this morning, a few hours before the General Assembly will review the governor's controversial plan to cut 3,000 children of illegal immigrants from RIte Care health benefits. The health-care groups, joined by a handful of former state legislators, criticized Carcieri's plan for about an hour this morning at the Rhode Island Medical Society offices on Promenade Street. The House Finance Committee will meet at 2 p.m. today in the State House's Trainor Hearing Room. A spokesman for the medical society said that the hearing would be well attended. "The societies who were represented this morning will be represented later today," said spokesman David Leveillee. "Public spending reflects our social priorities," Kathleen Fitzgerald, president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, said in a statement. "For years, Rhode Island has received a lot of very appropriate credit nationwide for having at least some of our social priorities right, and RIte Care is the prime example." Established in 1994, RIte Care provides Rhode Island families, pregnant women, parents and children up to age 19 with comprehensive health-care coverage. "The budget that is now before the General Assembly proposes cuts that are economically short sighted. It comes down to a question of spending something now, or spending a lot more later," Fitzgerald said. Posted by Steve Peoples |
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