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« Company bids $250,000 to operate lace works as is | Today | Narragansetts say grim times argue for a casino » January 23, 2008Doctors, nurses protest RIte Care cutsPROVIDENCE — Dressed in lab coats and clutching Spiderman Band-Aids, a platoon of medical students fanned out across the State House today, buttonholing legislators to argue against proposed cuts to the RIte Care program. Their guerrilla lobbying followed a protest in the rotunda, where health-care leaders lambasted Governor Carcieri for his attempts to strip nearly 9,000 low-income residents from the state’s health-care rolls. “It is a crisis of fairness,” K. Nicholas Tsiongas, president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, said, drawing applause from doctors and nurses holding placards on the marble staircase. “I am in despair of the recent course set for Rhode Island.” -- Journal staff writer Benjamin N. Gedan Posted by Benjamin N. Gedan CommentsRay W. | January 23, 2008 8:08 PM link THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO TAX IF THE POLS DON'T CHANGE...STOP GIVING AWAY OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY TO THOSE WHO JUST WANT Mike Droitcour | January 23, 2008 9:39 PM link Good for the doctors and nurses! They will be the ones cleaning up the healthcare mess if we cut people from RIte Care...people are still going to get sick and will be lining up at urgent care and emergency rooms across the state. Doctors and nurses go to school a long time for a reason...they are SMART and they know what's up. If the governor's proposed cuts to RIte Care go through we will lose millions/ billions! in Medicaid reimbursement from the federal government. I mean RIte Care was voted Number One two years ago...it looks like the priorities of this state are with the rich and not with the rest of us. Amanda L.E. | January 23, 2008 9:48 PM link well stop giving visa to old peoples from other country and then we have to support. JULIO | January 23, 2008 9:50 PM link The governor is so short sighted - his cuts to Rite Care will actually cost the state MORE in in the long run - even if you don't believe in the morality of it then at least realize that it is not financially sound - it only takes about $20/month to keep a child on Rite Care - this tiny amount is certainly not the cause of RI's budget crisis! Jennifer | January 23, 2008 10:20 PM link Governor Carcieri is the 1st person to recognize and publicly acknowledge the financial problems in this state. He is doing a great job with financial cuts in all areas. Doctors are not always paid in full by the insurance companies for their work and I'm sure they already do their share with Rite Care Patients. Annette Cataldi | January 24, 2008 6:53 AM link If the Governor is so worried about unnecessary bbudget cuttting, why doesn't he start with his wife's staff...she wasn't elected to anything!!!! And why doesn't he foprego his salary???? And his health care coverage WITHOUT THE THE REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE STATE? BECAUSE HE'S GREEDY? FB52 | January 24, 2008 6:56 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Let the games begin! I'm sure there will be protests every day aimed at the proposed budget of the Governor. The reason we are in this mess to begin with is unsustainable spending and an unviable economic model forced upon RI by our very own General Assembly.