Friday, July 14, 2006

Medicaid Director for a Day

Rich Miller's Sun-Times column today was a doozie. For those of you who missed it, Miller pointed out that letters announcing acceptance into AllKids go out of their way to mention Governor Blagojevich:

“Your application for Governor Blagojevich’s All Kids health insurance program has been approved. Thank you for your application. Governor Blagojevich believes there is nothing more important than making sure your family has access to the health care they need.” (emphasis added)
While letters denying enrollment in AllKids don't mention the Governor at all:
“Your application for the All Kids health insurance program has been denied.”
In the Governor's defense, no one would have batted an eye at this in the old days. Of course, in the old days, folks didn't run multi-million dollar campaigns claiming they'd end Business-as-Usual and then open up a Business-as-Usual franchise in every state agency.

Needless to say, the Hypocrite-o-meters over on CapitolFax were going off the charts, and folks were having a grand old time writing their own rejection letters, including this:
“Your application for the All Kids health insurance program has been denied. Governor Blageovich has been working hard to make health accessable to all, but in this like in his other great works he has been underminded by Juby Bar Topinka and her other puppy eating Republican allies” (rmwstanford)
And this:
"Your insurance for your kid has been denied but if you meet one of our agents and bring 3 friends who will sign a pledge to vote for me we will happily sign your child up.Oh as a bonus to speed up the paper work bring some cash for my upcoming indictment."(DOWNSTATE)
And then Old Elephant offers this acceptance letter:
You have been accepted for the “All Kids” health insurance program. Now…good luck finding a doctor who will serve you because for some reason these selfish, disloyal people seem to think they should actually get paid and of course, while you may be earning $150,000 — we are only paying the doctors the same amount they would get if you were making $10,000 and on Medicaid. Oh…yeah…we forgot… we don’t really pay them — we just pretend to pay them.
Since comments are closed over at Capitolfax, I thought I'd open this thread so folks can feel free to let their creative juices flow all weekend long. Pretend you're Medicaid Director for the day, and write your own darn letters.

6 comments:

Anonymous,  3:09 PM  

Good one!

You’re such a kidder, Mr. Yellow.

Anonymous,  7:14 PM  

Dude, I guess that I'm the only one visiting with you today. Oh well, I'll take a shot at it:

Yo, did you know that there is approximately 300,000 kids in this great state that don’t have health insurance because their working class parents can’t afford it. Yeah, that’s right, there are good, hard working parents in this state that literally have to sit by and watch their child, well, be sick. You know, not just rich people care about there children. Middle and lower income parents care about their kids, too. That’s right, no insurance means no doctor visits, no medicine, and nowhere to turn. Being a parent, I can tell you first hand that it’s not a lot of fun watching your child suffer from strep throat, or trying to control a high fever with generic grape flavored Motrin. I believe that every child in this state, hell, in this country should be able to get medical attention when they need it. Don’t you?

Sign up now!

Anonymous,  2:10 PM  

11:22 am:

I hope Rich will clear this up by posting copies of the letters he used, but your post doesn't exactly mean that he as wrong. if there are letter going to people who are accepted into AllKids that list it a Blago's program, and letters to rejected applicants that do not list Blago's name, that needs to be explained, even, or especially, if they come from different offices.

Anonymous,  5:56 PM  

You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way.

Rich Miller 6:39 PM  

The letters I used did not come out of different offices, as the above poster falsely claimed. Also, both the acceptance and rejection letters were confirmed as authentic by the governor's office before the column was published and twice since then.

Anonymous,  1:08 AM  

Dear Ms./Mr. Illinois Citizen:

Let me be the first to congratulate you on receiving a check from the Illinois AllCelebs program, thanks to me, Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Never before has each Illinois citizen received a $1,000,000 check, which will alow each of us to live the same kind of life as Oprah or Mike Ditka. Never before has a Governor had the pectoral multiplicity to use a modern tool like E-Bay to transact both sides of a deal that will net Illinois Citizens $10 trillion.

While you are enjoying the proceeds of your Governor Rod Blagojevich's Illinois Celebricheck (tm), remember to watch the first ever Illnois/Home Shopping Network aucfotainment special, "The Relics of Lincoln", showing on your local pay-per-view channel next Thursday, July 27th.

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