Kansas proves why conservatives should never run anything ever.

[orogenicman]

When I applied for Kansas Medicaid this year, like I sometimes have to do out of necessity for increased medical bills-- I literally had a Medicaid Rep call me and try to talk me out of getting it "because Medicare takes care of most all of my medical expenses". When I declined his non offer, he cited a $2500 spend down every six months that I must meet in order to get simple Medicaid benefits like rides to my appointments (I have seizures off and on) and the grocery store. He said its that way for even the elderly and others. I could hardly believe it. Now, I've reached that spend down and still they refuse to acknowledge it. I'm behind on my treatments and was hospitalized recently, having spent my last ten bucks on a taxi so as to not incur an ambulance bill on top of it all. When I asked the Medicaid Rep why no one at Medicaid answered the phone, he said that there were changes two years ago that pretty much made their processing time faster, but no one answers the phone--you just have to come in. Then I asked why they had an address for an office on their website that was no longer existant.
I.. still don't have transportation. In tears, when I asked the Rep what I should do for transportation he asked me if I go to church to ask them for help. Or red cross, who I do not qualify for. Or a disabled bus service that has literally am inch of paperwork for you to fill out and a medical evaluation you must attend.
I'm too ill to fight or play 'find the SRS office in a taxi'. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

My sister, who has just graduated nursing school and pays back more money than was spent supporting her and her children during school, ended up living off of ramen noodles all of last year because the only food benefits she could get for her and two kids is $35. My food benefit is a whopping $15. That's a month.

Not to mention the inhumane electric company spike in January that came out of nOwhere for all of Wichita. All's told my friend with a house had a double bill, and mine was quadrupled in the apartment. Therefore my sister and I bundled up Feb-April and went without A/C all summer. We aren't the only ones.

After being released from the hospital barely able to make the trip home (I was released still anemic), I was notified that there's a 2-3 yr long waiting list for home health aid. So pretty much, to sum it up, the hospitals here laid off some 20k health workers and no one is getting the care they need. But Kansas was one of those states that refused Obama's federal aid program and calls other states moochers.

I fully expect that there will be at the very least, elderly deaths and child starvation (WIC was completely cut altogether) as a consequence of the lack of care in this state.

Kansas is fucked.

You have my sympathy. It took me four years to get my disability, and that ultimately involved being in a medical bed at a homeless shelter, having lost everything I spent a lifetime accumulating, including my marriage. And people say this is the greatest country in the world. If it is, then we are all fucked.

[Heywood]

The full effects of tax cuts(or increases for that matter) take years to come to realization. Company/individuals aren't going to choose to immediately move into or out of a state the instance tax policy is changed. Any change in tax policy is going to have some impact on how attractive the state is toward new businesses. I'd like to see how Kansas is doing 10-20 years from now if these cuts aren't reversed in the short run.

[Mystical]

Its going to be bankrupt long before then. Its people will be starving and even MOre uneducated, unhireable, and unhealthy. Crime rate will be so high no one will want to come.
Pretty much Detroit.

[Dystopia]

I've read some news on my local newspapers saying Detroit is one of the worst places to live in the US, it is depicted as being horrible.

[Minimalist]

The full effects of tax cuts(or increases for that matter) take years to come to realization.

Yeah... when Reagan fucked things up in the 80's it took a long time for the shit to really hit the fan.

[Jaysyn]

I'd like to see how Kansas is doing 10-20 years from now if these cuts aren't reversed in the short run.

Kansas isn't going to make it five years at this rate, let alone 10-20 you dimwit.

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I've read some news on my local newspapers saying Detroit is one of the worst places to live in the US, it is depicted as being horrible.

It's probably worse than your paper made it out to be, honestly. They had all of their eggs in manufacturing.

[Ryantology]

I've read some news on my local newspapers saying Detroit is one of the worst places to live in the US, it is depicted as being horrible.

You can buy houses there for a dollar.

One dollar.

Not habitable houses, mind you. But, there are thousands to choose from.

[Mystical]

You have my sympathy. It took me four years to get my disability, and that ultimately involved being in a medical bed at a homeless shelter, having lost everything I spent a lifetime accumulating, including my marriage. And people say this is the greatest country in the world. If it is, then we are all fucked.

This.. brought a tear to my eye and made me want to hug you so much..
I can't imagine how you survived that but you have my sympathies as well.

My fiancee (at the time) couldn't handle the thought of me being ill. I lost everything too, due to illness. My family picked me up off the floor of my beautiful apartment and I just never returned to my Chemistry degree. I lost my job and car and credit in less than a few months. Luckily my mum let me bum her couch (okay be bedbound to her couch) for six months in order to qualify. In the end it was the fact that I needed life saving treatments, to get me in.

I don't know what's wrong with this country but I do highly doubt that parts of it aren't third world level. I used to think America was the greatest nation in the land. Now I'm quickly realizing that that notion is a joke. Yet another bullshit lie fed at church, to behonest. Some would say I'm unamerican, but that's not the case. I'm realistic. I love my country. I would even fight for my country. But fuck if it doesn't need a cold hard splash of 'wake the fuck up'.

[Jackalope]

I've read some news on my local newspapers saying Detroit is one of the worst places to live in the US, it is depicted as being horrible.

You can buy houses there for a dollar.

One dollar.

Not habitable houses, mind you. But, there are thousands to choose from.

...and there are many many more available for next to nothing. And yet, they are not selling.

Doesn't the mayor of Detroit have a plan he's implementing to literally bulldoze a quarter of the city in order to get rid of the urban blight and consolidate population?

[Minimalist]

The mayor of Detroit can't wipe his ass without getting the permission of some cocksucker appointed by the (republicunt) governor.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-15...eover.html

When emergency manager Kevyn Orr arrives in near-bankrupt Detroit, almost half of Michigan’s black population will live under the rule of state overseers with little say in the governments nearest them.