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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (281109)3/22/2006 10:56:18 AM
From: Amy J  Read Replies (1) of 1572953
 
Chris, this story is about yet another teenage pregnant child. She gave birth at Regional. Two months later she learned "elective Medi-Cal" treatment is not covered at the hospital.

Here are my questions:

1. where is the story about the lack of govt funding for abortion or adoption to pregnant teenage girls? I read in the newspaper that poor women in Mississippi have to pay $500 to $1000 out of their own pockets to have an abortion, which of course is a barrier for them to have an abortion - why isn't this a covered medical benefit that the govt pays? Where is the funding for abortion and adoption?

2. why only stories about poor women? you'll never find a story in California about working women not getting good health care whether that be for breast cancer prevention (illegal immigrants have better breast care prevention than unemployed hightech workers due to the programs and focus on poor women), first trimester prenatal care that's non-existant for workers (oops, you didn't know you were suppose to take folic and avoid cat litter?) while poor people get better care from WIC (WIC only educates poor women), or being denied coverage for fertility, etc.

"Suzanne Garcia didn't know about the hospital's Medi-Cal policy until her teenage daughter had an emergency delivery of her baby at Regional earlier this year."

mercurynews.com

3. The story should focus on what defines "elective medical", because that sounds like that is the real issue. Why is the govt defining what is elective or not? Why does the govt get in the way of consumer health care? Why is a respiratory illness considered "elective"?

Regards,
Amy J
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