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These two states have cut mental health care funding for citizens because supposedly illegals need it! I posted on here a little while ago the article about Oklahoma. Now Illinois jumped aboard. What am I missing? Why does our government fall all over themselves to do so much for illegals? I know, Money, but, you would think somethings would be untouchable. Like this, How does it make sense to anyone, to take mental health care away from citizens who have already been in the system, to give it to illegals? How could anyone feel that's right? They can't. I don't get it. I'm sure if these two states are doing it, more are. We just haven't heard about it yet.
"Here’s your “America’s screwed-up priorities” story of the day from the progressive-infested land of corruption, the state of Illinois.
In late April, the state House of Representatives passed a bill to expand the so-called “All Kids” health care program in order to provide comprehensive, taxpayer-subsidized health benefits to illegal aliens under the age of 18. (The initial expansions of the bloated, out-of-control program to illegal immigrants were the brainchild of now-imprisoned corruptocrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich.) According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the program “has already cost the state over $500 million, and audits conducted by the Illinois Auditor General indicate that nearly 70% of enrollees and 65% of the total cost of the program comes from illegal aliens.”
"Funding their care directs the program’s resources away from people like my son and thousands of other legal citizens of the state. “It is so disheartening knowing legislators cut services for the 1,000 medically fragile, disabled children in Illinois who are citizens but did not cut out one of the over 75,000 men, women and children in this same program who are not citizens. - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/05/wut-illinois-pols-expand-medicaid-for-illegals-slash-disabled-kids-aid#sthash.Yn8QZLEA.dpuf"
Illinois is a failed state, as far as politics go...so it's not that shocking. As the poster above me stated, Oklahoma is a bit shocking though, that they would cut out mental health funding.
However, I'd like to see the actual bills for both states before passing full judgement.
Oklahoma shocks me. I'd think their politicians would know better than that. Illinois does not, their politicians are corrupt from top to bottom.
Don't ever decide to become a politician in that state. The corruption will suck you in, and there's no resisting it.
Oklahoma never did much for mental health care, since closing down the insane asylums. The conservatives there pretty strongly feel that all able bodied people should stand up proud and straight and pay for their own medical care. Relying on the state to provide help with it is viewed as wrong and immoral, because it leads to dependency upon the state. So now Oklahoma ranks among the lowest states for mental health funding, while having one of the highest rates for mental illness.
Sure, just throw 'em in jail or let the cops shoot 'em. That'll solve the problem. Don't give help.
That nails it as it applies to Oklahoma. With mental illness so high in Oklahoma, no wonder that state has one of the highest rates of police killing people. The jails and prisons there are overcrowded, much of it from the mentally ill.
Oklahoma never did much for mental health care, since closing down the insane asylums. The conservatives there pretty strongly feel that all able bodied people should stand up proud and straight and pay for their own medical care. Relying on the state to provide help with it is viewed as wrong and immoral, because it leads to dependency upon the state. So now Oklahoma ranks among the lowest states for mental health funding, while having one of the highest rates for mental illness.
They are in the pocket of the health care corporations. Thats the problem. They would sing another tune if the elections were publicly funded and legalized bribery didnt exist.
Oklahoma never did much for mental health care, since closing down the insane asylums. The conservatives there pretty strongly feel that all able bodied people should stand up proud and straight and pay for their own medical care. Relying on the state to provide help with it is viewed as wrong and immoral, because it leads to dependency upon the state. So now Oklahoma ranks among the lowest states for mental health funding, while having one of the highest rates for mental illness.
If you recall, when our good buddy Frank Keating basically shut down the mental hospitals in the mid '90s, one of the first things that happened with one of the displaced persons from Eastern State Hospital went over to the local hospital and shot and killed himself a nurse.
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