Mired in Poverty: We Let Moms Die

[OneGrassRoot]

Happy Mother’s Day.

Flowers, candy, breakfast in bed, and beautiful kid-drawn cards. But if any of those mothers happens to be low income with a serious health issue, they might be celebrating their last Mother’s Day with their families.

“Stacy,” of my widely circulated March 11 Hard Times story, recently shared gruesome news with me. She’s been diagnosed with cervical cancer and needs surgery, an $8,000 procedure. Trouble is, New Mexico is one of those budget-conscious states that thinks they can balance their budget on the cervixes of mothers who scramble stalwartly to keep their kids alive and out of child protection custody.

Stacy and her mother-dependent young children are mired in that category despite her exemplary parenting skills. Single adults and parents with “too much” income are ineligible for medical care.


http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/diane-nilan/mired-poverty-we-let-moms-die

[kestrel91316]

1. Once they have produced their "cannon fodder", they are of no further use to the 1%.

So OF COURSE we let them die.

They should be glad we don't just take them out in the back 40 and shoot them.

[midnight]

2. Poverty is created via domestic policies that allow corporations to have tax cuts, and the poor

to pay for them via giving up food, housing, health care..... We need health care that is not profit driven..

[Addison]

3. And this in a supposedly "Christian" nation