Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Child prostitution charges were filed Thursday against an Oklahoma state senator who police say was found with a teenage boy in a motel room in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, according to a local prosecutor.

Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey of Oklahoma City was charged with engaging in child prostitution, transporting a minor for prostitution and engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church.

An arrest warrant has been issued.

Police in Moore have said they're still investigating the circumstances surrounding a March 9 incident involving Shortey and a teenager. Police did not immediately return a phone call for further comment.

Police released a heavily redacted report that said a juvenile boy was found in a motel room with an adult male on March 9. The names of those in the room and the boy's age are redacted in the report.

Yet I've known people on Medicaid who were referred to a cardiologist for a cardiac catheter. I've known some who spent over a week in the hospital when on Medicaid.

How much more are you going to try to push this fantasy that if a patient needs a referral, they don't get one?

HMOs and PPOs can be sued for the malpractice of a doctor on their network. But the doctor on the network who refuses to refer a case to the appropriate specialist absolutely is on the hook for malpractice if something bad happens as a refult of lack of referral. So your theory goes out the window.

I don't think General Practitioners perform cardiac catheter operations, so my friend on Medicaid must have gotten a referral.

You are making stuff up,

if a serious problem comes up from the lack of a referral, the doctor for sure is on the hook for malpractice and the HMO or PPO can be.

You are struggling to make it seem that Medicaid is not much different from the Doctors Without Borders physicians who do the best they can to bring modern medicine to impoverished residents of places without electricity or roads.

Medicaid is a comprehensive modern medical system that works, contrary to what you are claiming.

Actually, Medicaid is pretty good health care from what I can see, but if you have a plan for improvement, let's hear it.

79% of employers offered PPOs in 2010, years before the ACA went into effect.

Medicaid does allow necessary cosmetics, it does not allow the deluxe version. Nor do private health care plans, in many cases.

And since your alternative is Trumpcare,which the people being thrown off Medicaid by Trumpcare cannot afford, you are downgrading Medicaid, so that the people being thrown off it won't seem to be losing much.

The people I knew on Medicaid had regular visits to the doctor and got referred for various procedures, some of them quite expensive. While everyone knows that all halth care plans prefer generic meds to brand name drugs, I haven't seen any evidence that Medicaid doctors are denying the expensive generic drugs to keep their jobs. And I've known at least one Medicaid patient who got Abilify before it went generic.

Most plans, Medicaid or private, require a case to be made by the prescribing doctor for name brand drugs instead of a generic. What I don't see is any evidence that it takes a long process to get slightly more expensive generics.

And even if what you said was true, it would still be far better than being thrown off Medicaid and going without treatment because Trumpcare will not be affordable to people who make between $9K and $18K yearly.

Yes, public hospitals and those connected to universities accept Medicaid.

If you pay more than a 100 percent rebate, you are talking about subsidies, and Trumpcare is supposed to get rid of subsidies.

You are making stuff up,

No. Medicaid really is a bad deal.

And since your alternative is Trumpcare,which the people being thrown off Medicaid by Trumpcare cannot afford, you are downgrading Medicaid, so that the people being thrown off it won't seem to be losing much.

I don't know. Seems like a pretty bad scenario either way.

But why not make Trumpcare affordable to the poor?

The American voter can blame themselves for electing a pathological liar as our president.

It's a great deal for the poor in that it gives them both general medical care and the ability to be seen by specialists, not to mention getting expensive operations including open heart surgery, etc.

When it gets to the point that you want to scrap the whole system-with no alternative in place-because the only specialist who may know about some rare tropical disease might not be on the network, you have shown how desperate you have become to run this system down.

Besides which, it covers visits to university teaching hospitals, who will call in people who do know about rare diseases.

But Trumpcare as written is NOT affordable to the poor at all.

When and if the powers that be change Trumpcare so that the poor can afford it, then you can talk about replacing Medicaid.

Right now you have no alternative to Medicaid,

and that's why you are pushing these ridiculous stories about it to make it seem like poor people won't be losing much even if they lose their Medicaid and can't afford Trumpcare.

I'm not desperate. All I am doing is pointing out facts.