Another Sham Article By AP

I guess the AP just doesn't like AZ.

2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies

Interestingly, it's in the 2nd to last paragraph (completely buried) that AZ had to cut back its medicare because of a loss of FEDERAL funding.

Brewer and Republican lawmakers want to drop approximately 250,000 people from AHCCCS enrollment because of the state's continuing budget troubles and the impending loss of federal stimulus funding that has propped up spending on the Medicaid program.

Arizona faces a projected $1.4 billion shortfall in its next state budget.

Brewer has said she will ask President Barack Obama's administration for a waiver permitting the enrollment reduction. The federal health care overhaul otherwise bars the enrollment reduction.

Additionally, it appears to only be happenstance that these two people died after this budget cut happened.

"A Phoenix-area man, Mark Price, died Nov. 28 of complications from preparation for a bone-marrow transplant that was to be privately funded. That funding was provided anonymously after The Associated Press and other media outlets reported that he was notified of two possible donors on Oct. 1, the same day the coverage was reduced."

Finally, they don't even know if the second person was even on medicaid.

"Contacted for comment on the latest death, Brewer spokeswoman Paul Senseman said the governor's office didn't have confirmation that the person was enrolled in the state Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System".

In short, while all deaths are tragic if you are sick enough to need a transplant, then the odds of your dying are prety high to begin with. Claiming these budget cuts "caused" these deaths is a huge stretch and yet another example from the deceptive MSM.

If anything, this situation in Arizona is a glimpse of our future because it is more accurately an examle of the rationing that occurs when healthcare is financed via the government (medicare, medicaid, tricare, vet care). Get used to it or repeal.