A list of the MNGOP’s cuts to Health and Human Services

I’m at a loss for words over the MNGOP’s draconian cuts to Health and Human Services. Fortunately, I don’t need to say anything. I’ll simply show you. Here’s a list of all of the cuts the Senate HHS bill would make:

• Meals on Wheels ($2.7 million; 50% cut)
• developmental disability family supports ($4.1 million; 50% cut)
• child care service developmental grants ($500,000; 100% cut)
• child care resource and referral grants ($1.5 million; 100% cut)
• subsidized adoption grants ($5.3 million cut)
• American Indian Child Welfare Program ($9.5 million; 100% cut)
• aging prescription drug assistance grants ($1.8 million; 100% cut)
• children’s mental health screening grants ($7.6 million; 100% cut)
• adult mental health crisis grants ($1.5 million; 100% cut)
• caregiver support grants ($952,000; 100% cut)
• relative custody assistance grants ($1.5 million cut)
• child welfare reform/prevention & early intervention ($1.6 million; 100% cut)
• Health Care Access Fund (25% cut)
• Department of Health General Fund (20% cut)
• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (100% cut) funds  
• Statewide Health Improvement Program grants (100% cut)
• state loan forgiveness programs for medical training that maintain the state’s ability to recruit and retain health practitioners in geographically underserved urban and rural settings (100% cut)
• repeals the Early Expansion of Medicaid 
• families and children on Medicaid with incomes above 75 percent of the poverty rate ($13,898 for a family of three) would be dropped from Medicaid
• the same would apply to all those on MinnesotaCare with incomes above 133 percent of the poverty rate
• eliminates optional services like eyeglasses, contact lenses and prosthetics for Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare recipients

Wow. Just wow.