Child dies due to a computer glitch that falsely said he didn't qualify for Medicaid.

[Lobotomy]

http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_18657538


A Denver mother whose son died after she was unable to fill his multiple prescriptions because pharmacists kept telling her he was not eligible for Medicaid — even though records proved he was — has filed a lawsuit against the city and county of Denver.
Zuton Lucero-Mills said she called Denver County Human Services several times a week in the spring and summer of 2009 after she tried to get 9-year-old son Zumante's asthma medications at Walgreens and was told he wasn't eligible for Medicaid.
No one resolved the computer glitch. Most of Lucero-Mills' calls weren't returned.
Her son's asthma worsened after several months of being off the anti-inflammatory drug Advair, which kept the disease manageable.
The boy died in July 2009. He fainted at his home after telling his mother he couldn't breathe and then died a few days later at Children's Hospital when he was taken off a ventilator.

It makes me so sick that people still defend a free market health care system.

[Aleenik]

A sad story indeed. Stories like this shouldn't be happening at all.:(

[Nox]

It makes me so sick that people still defend a free market health care system.

You got that right. Stories like this are one of the many flaws of privatisation of healthcare, and pretty much privatisation as a whole.

[Cynic]

If your not rich, old, or poverty stricken your pretty much screwed when it comes to privatized medical care. Health insurance prices are through the roof and try to find any loophole not to pay for you medical bills. Healthcare should be accessible to all people. The United States government is also continually trying to limit the number people that can get on public assistance and make the qualifications harder. It is quite sad really.

[RadioRaheem84]

Right wingers will try to twist this and make it be a case of government mishandling.

Was the glitch on behalf of the pharmacy or the government?

We see the deadly negligence of a free market system and faulty social services.

[Cynic]

Social services in America are a joke. They are constantly trying to limit the amount of people that can be on them and make the qualifications harder and private some programs. The government wants you dead by 62 so you can't collect on social security.

[Lobotomy]

Right wingers will try to twist this and make it be a case of government mishandling.

Was the glitch on behalf of the pharmacy or the government?

We see the deadly negligence of a free market system and faulty social services.

I think they are more likely to place the blame on the mother somehow. They would say something like "It was that single mother's fault, she is too incompetent/doesn't work hard enough to raise her own children."

I think the glitch was on behalf of the pharmacy.

[piet11111]

And yet health care per person is more costly in the united states then in the "socialist" european country's that have universal health care.

[Ocean Seal]

It makes me so sick that people still defend a free market health care system.
And I doubly hate everyone who defends charity as a legitimate means to help the poor get healthcare.

[Blackburn]

There is more to this case than just the rhetoric. I am a lifelong asthmatic. I know the complications etc.

I actually don't take preventer drugs. There is no proof that it prevents a major attack anyways.

The major attack that caused the child's death could have been from a number of things. I guess evidence will be presented in court?

That being said, this child should of had access to the medication. Heck I think it should all be free and available by the state.

In Australia, everyone has access to prescription medication, with a Doctor's script. It's outrageous the child was denied this.


What is strange...is that there are a few days between his feinting and death in hospital? That doesn't sound like Asthmatic attack to me. That sounds like something else.

Asthma deaths are usually always instant.

[RadioRaheem84]

I think they are more likely to place the blame on the mother somehow. They would say something like "It was that single mother's fault, she is too incompetent/doesn't work hard enough to raise her own children."

I think the glitch was on behalf of the pharmacy.

Why are right wingers always blaming the person without the power? :confused:

Why are they always blaming the only institution (government) where we have some sort of say in the matter?

Why are they always defending the institutions where we have no say? (except with our pocketbook :rolleyes:)

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

What is strange...is that there are a few days between his feinting and death in hospital? That doesn't sound like Asthmatic attack to me. That sounds like something else.


It says he was taken off a ventilator, though.

I wonder why that was?

[Lobotomy]

Why are right wingers always blaming the person without the power? :confused:

Why are they always blaming the only institution (government) where we have some sort of say in the matter?

Why are they always defending the institutions where we have no say? (except with our pocketbook :rolleyes:)

The bourgeoisie's propaganda machine is loud.