Just When Bev Perdue Thought It…
2009-10-22 - by
… couldn’t get any worse, it did. Her popularity dropped again.
According to a poll last week an astonishing 63% of North Carolinians disapprove of the job Perdue is doing as Governor. She’s lost the support of Moderates, Conservatives, Independents, Republicans and half the Democrats who voted for her last November. All she has left is about 29% of the voters who are largely liberals in her own party – and just as soon as they find out what she’s doing to Medicaid patients they’re going to be having second thoughts too.
Here’s an example: There’s a state Medicaid program that provides nurses to care for invalid children in their homes. I don’t mean children who’re a little ill. Children with MS and Cerebral Palsy and who need ventilators to breathe.
It’s a tiny program with just 350 patients in it but the only way these children can stay at home and out of institutions is the nurse Medicaid provides who spends part of her day caring for them. But Perdue’s Department of Health and Human Services just announced it’s cutting their care. It is cheaper the state’s Department of Health and Human Services declares to put them in institutions than to care for them in their homes. So the time nurses spend with these patients is being cut or eliminated.
Now a conservative Republican – like me – might swallow hard and buy Perdue’s explanation that there’s just not enough money to provide a nurse for a child with MS – but a true-blue liberal’s going to be livid with sheer moral outrage.
And that outrage is going to hit Perdue right dead center in what’s left of her popularity – because it’s going to be pretty hard for a liberal who supports President Obama’s ‘Public Option’ to vote to reelect a Governor who cut care for a child with MS – while spending $25 million to build a fancy fishing pier at Nags Head.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats
Just When Bev Perdue Thought It…
2009-10-22/
… couldn’t get any worse, it did. Her popularity dropped again.
According to a poll last week an astonishing 63% of North Carolinians disapprove of the job Perdue is doing as Governor. She’s lost the support of Moderates, Conservatives, Independents, Republicans and half the Democrats who voted for her last November. All she has left is about 29% of the voters who are largely liberals in her own party – and just as soon as they find out what she’s doing to Medicaid patients they’re going to be having second thoughts too.
Here’s an example: There’s a state Medicaid program that provides nurses to care for invalid children in their homes. I don’t mean children who’re a little ill. Children with MS and Cerebral Palsy and who need ventilators to breathe.
It’s a tiny program with just 350 patients in it but the only way these children can stay at home and out of institutions is the nurse Medicaid provides who spends part of her day caring for them. But Perdue’s Department of Health and Human Services just announced it’s cutting their care. It is cheaper the state’s Department of Health and Human Services declares to put them in institutions than to care for them in their homes. So the time nurses spend with these patients is being cut or eliminated.
Now a conservative Republican – like me – might swallow hard and buy Perdue’s explanation that there’s just not enough money to provide a nurse for a child with MS – but a true-blue liberal’s going to be livid with sheer moral outrage.
And that outrage is going to hit Perdue right dead center in what’s left of her popularity – because it’s going to be pretty hard for a liberal who supports President Obama’s ‘Public Option’ to vote to reelect a Governor who cut care for a child with MS – while spending $25 million to build a fancy fishing pier at Nags Head.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats