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Posted by preciouschild

May 12, 2008 |

Unacceptable. Period.

This morning as I drove to work, I made the mistake of listening to NPR…again. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love NPR but wowza - do their stories get my blood a-boilin’.

So, by 7:15 am I was thoroughly pissed off.

What, you may ask, was the cause of my early morn saltiness?

SCHIP, baby, SCHIP. And by SCHIP I mean the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan.

Kinda.

Or rather the changes that have been made to SCHIP and the children that are, once again, being left behind.

P.S. - I’ve started adding blog entries that I think you really really need to read to Headlines - in addition to Media.

Fixing Lucy’s heart

Lucy Bell, 6, of West Linn, recently underwent successful heart surgery; the latest attempt to win the battle over a common birth defect

Epileptic child makes woman thankful to be a mother

Ask why, and Mull gets quiet. She’s worried about Christopher, her blond 3 1/2 year old who is quick to give out hugs and wave to strangers. For nearly all of his short life, Christopher has suffered from unexplained, unrelenting seizures. For his mother, that means in addition to diapers, dinner and baths, there are ambulance rides, emergency room procedures…

Rule to split up foster families - State to place cap on therapeutic care

Foster families across North Carolina face a tough question: which one of their kids must leave?

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services says starting in July it will impose stricter limits on the number of severely disabled foster children who can live in one household.

(I’m really curious how the rest of you feel on this one…)


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