California Healthcare
Changes Leave Woman Without Treatment for Terminal Disease
by AWR Hawkins 21 Dec 2013, 3:25
PM PDT
Paradise, CA resident Tiffany St.
Cyr has a rare disease that is incurable but survivable with treatment, yet she
cannot get care because of healthcare changes California
adopted in anticipation of Obamacare
and corresponding state healthcare changes.
St. Cyr is 28-years old and
suffers from Achalasia. It has made her esophagus so weak that she is unable to
move food from her mouth to her stomach, basically starving her to death.
The Mayo Clinic says there is no
cure for the disease, but its "symptoms can usually be managed with
minimally invasive (endoscopic) therapy or surgery."
This where the healthcare changes
come into play for St. Cyr. According to the Paradise Post, "St. Cyr was
previously covered under no-share cost MediCal" but on November 1st
"was transferred to a managed healthcare plan" that does not cover
treatments for her disease.
This transfer to a managed plan
took place "pursuant to AB 1467, the 2012-13 [California] State budget."
According to the California
Legislature's Bill Analysis webpage, AB1467 made certain changes to MediCal to
"comply with requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act," also
known as Obamacare. Other changes were made in anticipation of the January 1,
2014 roll-out of Covered California, "California's own version of
[Obamacare]."
But the result of it all is that
St. Cyr cannot pay for the treatment she needs to reverse the effects of her
disease.
CA Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-3rd
Dist.) has taken up St. Cyr's cause and says he is "prepared to write a
letter (to Sacramento)" on her behalf, "asking that she gets the kind
of care that she needs."
California
Jerry
Brown is the California state government governor, and his sister is Kathleen Brown.
Note: Kathleen Brown was
the California state government treasurer, is Governor Jerry Brown’s sister, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development, and Human Rights First.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Mark
A. Angelson is a director at Human
Rights First, and was a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Governor Jerry
Brown’s sister, and was the California state government treasurer.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen Brown’s
brother, and the California state government governor.
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