Ten-thousand chronically ill children in our state are being dropped by their specialists, denied proper treatment, and refused essential equipment. (emphasis added)
It’s the result of a change to Florida’s healthcare designed to save the state money.
CBS12 Investigates uncovered this cut in costs is a cut in care.
For decades, families with severely ill children rely heavily on the state system for help, but now the system has changed, and so has the help.
Like for Abby.
She’s a bubbly four-year-old who loves toys, eating sweets, and listening to music.
This little girl is the youngest of three daughters in the Muszynski family.
When Abby was born, the family was forced to face the reality that her life would never be normal.
“This is some of the oxygen masks and tubing that go with Abby’s oxygen tanks,” her mother Kim Muszynski said.
Abby has Aicardi, an extremely rare, life threatening neurological disorder which affects the formation of the brain.
She’s blind in her left eye, can’t walk or talk, and suffers from prolonged and potentially deadly seizures.
“She’s completely dependent on me for everything,” Kim said. “For feeding, for juice, I am her voice, I am her eyes.”
Abby needs to […]
How many of these ~40,000 families voted for Scott et al–& still would? To them, a person marrying another of the same gender, etc, is a more dire threat to their well-being than their kids dying a horrible early death. How can we
educate America past life-or-death “tribalism” or whatever is blighting (my idea) their common humanity? Sorry for the “rant” but I get so upset by those whose narrow-heartedness blights others’ lives plus their own…by, say, endorsing fracking, selling our (not their) priceless national parks/water/health systems for their own gain,.. or endorsing politicians who have seduced them into thinking they might ever care about them, now they’ve used their tax dollars/votes/support for their private enrichment & power…