July 1, 2009

NC Medicaid Critical for Children with Disabilities

Posted at 9:38 AM by Adam Searing

Last week I was able to sit down and talk with Darrell, Jocelyn, and Joshua Cooley, three members of a family from Raleigh who are truly inspiring. Joshua has severe disabilities from a rare genetic disorder and requires enormously expensive and time-consuming care. Despite Darrell and Jocelyn’s good jobs and decent health insurance, they can’t afford the thousands of dollars a month in extra costs it takes to care properly for Joshua:

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Louie 1 Jul 2009 5:57 pm

Medicaid is critical to the profits of hospitals and nursing home chains as well

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