Crack down on MaineCare abusers, audience at Presque Isle forum says

What a shame that LePage who wanted these “listening” meetings decides after one, where he was disrespectful and insulting, that he would not attend any more.  There is something truly wrong with LePage.  We can only hope that the Legislature handles these financial problems better than LePage.  I still think that LePage is just trying to justify what he believes rather than what needs to be done.

a big part of the budget problem is that Maine Care  pays for  things most private insurance companies won’t, unlimited visits to the chiropractor as long as your Doctor gives you a referral, and most Dr’s will, I know of a woman who is going to pre-natal swimming classes, on Maine Care’s dime (0r our dime) and this is not her first child, what private insurance company is going to pay for something like that? None, but the welfare system will. Her husband has insurance available through his work but they “can’t afford it” but apparently they can afford another child, on our dime

As a health professional in a Critical Access facility, I see what I believe to be a great deal of Mainecare abuse.  I see young, healthy individuals of both genders, some of them several times in the period of a month, that do not work, do not care to work but are capable of working.  Since they are not on a tight “work schedule,” it amazes me when they come into the ER for complaints that are not medical emergencies, can wait to be seen by a primary care provider – but want  immediate care.

At the same time, I also see handicapped individuals that do NOT come in as frequently, that are on Mainecare and need care on an urgent basis.  Thank goodness they DO have Mainecare available – because they have nothing else to fall back on nor the ability to access other care.  And I also see elderly patients that are on Mainecare that come in for care – and need a great deal more evaluation and receive far more medications – they also have no other options for care.

And now we have a governor that wants to make huge cuts in Mainecare.  But he wants to do so with blanket cuts, seemingly not caring that there are NO alternatives for the handicapped and elderly patients that will be affected by his actions.  But, BY GOLLY FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR BUSINESS!  – I would remind the governor, during this Christmas season, of what Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” said: “THE WELFARE OF MAN SHOULD BE YOUR BUSINESS.”  Afterall, why else is someone elected to office but for the welfare of others?

AS I posted above Channel 8(WAGM)stated to contact the AG’s office for fraud.Hope that helps.I know how much the chase sucks.A good friend of mine had his ID stolen by a co worker.(I know,not the same issue)after 3 plus years it is still not cleaned up-and he knows the name of the thief,which most in that situation don’t.Good luck and keep trying.

Do you see any liberal comment that deviates from the following:

For more than 35 years Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”

A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

1.  creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
2.  satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
3.  augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
4.  rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”