Medicare: Lawsuit charges government with denying care to thousands of chronically ill

_**San Jose Care Resource Guide: Yes,  we sometimes have to sue Medicare, i.e. our government, to get proper care.**  Here is a link to the article in the [** Chicago Tribune**][1]. This article was brought to our attention by _[Ernest A. Wahrburg, BA(PSY), MSW, LCSW (NC & NY)][2]/LinkedIn

__**Quoting the Chicago Tribune**: "…The  Center for Medicare Advocacy, which filed the lawsuit with Vermont Legal Aid on behalf of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Parkinson's Action Network, Paralyzed Veterans of America, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation…"__

__So what is the [Center for Medicare Advocacy][3]? Seems like a large **well organized pro-Obamacare health care advocacy site.** In fact one one their article's title is "**[HEALTH CARE REFORM DOES NOT CUT MEDICARE BENEFITS][4]" ….**__

**_So why are they suing Medicare, A.K.A, the (Obama) government?_**

**_Quoting the Tribune, quoting them,_**

_"…Under the law, Medicare is obligated to provide health care and therapy that are "reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury," according to the legal complaint. Yet through the years, program administrators have decided that services will only be reimbursed if patients show signs of getting better, the complaint notes….."_

_**_**San Jose Care Resource Guide: **_This Medicare policy, of course, choose to ignore that , for many  chronically ill, not getting worse is the name of the game!**_

_**San Jose Care Resource Guide: Fact is, bombast or not, liberal government will cut and/or weazzle out of social obligations like anybody else….Particularly when the group targeted for cuts does not seem politically significant. I.e. the disabled….The Obama admistration will rather spend our healthcare money on worthy  causes like**_

**_See our previous posts on the topic_**

* **_[With Medicaid waiver, California dives into health care reform (stateline) ][5]_**
* [Multiple sclerosis and it's Financial Burden: Comments on the Guardian'podcast][6]
*  [HealthCare: California's Gov. Brown's proposed steep healthcare cuts ][7]
* [Ways The New Health Law May Affect You in 2011 (KHN) ][8]
* [Health Care Law Should Help With Jail Inmate Treatment (thecrimereport) ][9]
* [Medi-Cal and Gender Reassignment Procedures][10]

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[1]: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-medicare-lawsuit-20110118,0,7699963.story
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[3]: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/
[4]: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/InfoByTopic/Reform/10_10.28.ReformDoesntCutBenefits.htm
[5]: http://www.careresourceguide.com/?p=287
[6]: http://www.careresourceguide.com/?p=595
[7]: http://www.careresourceguide.com/?p=590
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