Budget cuts

I have some things to do this morning, so there won't be much blogging on my part till later in the day, but this story about the consequences of Bush's Medicaid cuts just made me sick.

Seldom does a budget cut help cripple a child. Yet when Maryland cut $7 million last year and eliminated health care coverage for some recent immigrants, surgery was canceled on Eelaaf Zahid's malformed hip. Now, as her family looks to the courts and other state programs for help, an outgrown medical device implanted in her hip three years ago protrudes from her small body. The Glen Burnie kindergartener walks with a limp. . . .