STL Post Dispatch: Trying to cut health care for blind new low for Missouri GOP
Those blessed with eyesight should stare hard at the three photos that accompany this editorial. They are the faces of St. Louis-area Republicans Anne Zerr of St. Charles, Sue Allen of Town and Country and Paul Curtman of Pacific. They, along with their Republican colleagues on a House budget subcommittee, decided last week that blind people in Missouri no longer deserve state-provided health care.
"It came out of left field," said Denny Huff, president of the St. Louis-based Missouri Council of the Blind. The committee provided no notice and took no testimony in its attempt to pull the proverbial wool over taxpayers' eyes.
"The cut would be just devastating," Mr. Huff told us.
The vote — which must be reversed later in the budget process — would turn back the clock on more than four decades of public policy in Missouri. That policy has been such a rock-solid commitment that even in 2005, when Gov. Matt Blunt and his fellow Republicans slashed Medicaid benefits to the state's poor and disabled, they left the blind alone.
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They keep digging and prove you wrong. Despicable.
