| # | Name | Comments |
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| 551 | Anonymous | These funds are used to purchase additional health and other special needs items for our schools and students which are not covered in our school budget. This funding assists our students so that they are able to be safe and healthy while attending school. |
| 552 | Christina Huff | These funds make a huge difference in the lives of poor children and famlies. They are generated by the immense amount of time school staff puts into health support services and in turn the funds are used to provide services such as school nursing and menatl health counseling. |
| 553 | Anna M. Lee | Many of the children with special education needs that benefit from this funding come from families that do not have the financial means to provide them with the support services they receive without this money. Please do not pass this bill. |
| 554 | Shuli Lotan | |
| 555 | Tanya A. Mercado | |
| 556 | Deborah Bradfield, R.N., P.H.N. | |
| 557 | Sara Dekmar | |
| 558 | Susan Totaro | |
| 559 | elaine yoshikawa | |
| 560 | Mary Beth DiCecco | This is an important funding source for many of our low income students who often need medical services in order to be attentive or successful in school. Please make the choice for our children, and do not cut this vital Medicaid program. It is more fiscally sound to provide for children than it is to repair adults. |
| 561 | Harold Berjohn | It is critical that schools continue to recieve reimbursement for Administrative/Targeted Case Management and for Fee for Service Transportaion in order to meet the complete federal commitment to schools to provide partial reimbursement for medically related services proivded. Without this reimbursement, supplemental services will be in jepordy of being eliminated. |
| 562 | Sandra Lourenco | Many of these students do not see thier health care provider on a regular basis. By providing health care services in the school, problems can be identified before they become a crises and the child needs an emergency room visit, when we can refer them to their primary care physician. the reimbursement assists in paying for out time spent with the student and saves money in the long run. |
| 563 | Guadalupe Friaz | |
| 564 | Tawney Lambert | Any cuts in health services or cuts in anything that supports health services in our schools will have a negative affect on our kids. |
| 565 | teresa rutherford lcsw | |
| 566 | Patti Wales | Cuts may have to be made, but this is not the place. |
| 567 | Stacy Loechel | In order for our children to properly learn, they must be healthy bothe mentally and physically. There are many children whose families cannot afford medical insurance, and depend on state and federal programs to help provide them with medical services. If children's health services are at risk, so are our children. The one's who have no voice. Those who are supposed to be our future. How can we deny them medical rights and a proper education? For all of us who have been in school, we all know that being healthy is the best way to learn, which is why it is taught to us to take care of ourselves. So, why would we deny children who can't afford services that right? |
| 568 | Deborah Grimes Velasco | It is vital to all School Nurse programs to continue to receive the funds that are obtained through the Medicaid program. In a climate when cuts are often made addressing student health services - it should be a concern to everyone that students are provided health screenings, referrals & follow-up to maintain that children are healthy & ready to learn. We need these funds to be able to deliver these vital services to our school community. |
| 569 | Judy Muehleman | |
| 570 | Anonymous | |
| 571 | sharon vejnar | |
| 572 | Bryan Pullen | Illinois |
| 573 | Sharon Chapman | |
| 574 | Lori | Our MAA funding that we receive is critical in helping us give our students the much needed support that they need. Please do NOT cut ANY money. In fact, schools need more money for the support of our precious kids we serve. These kids are our future, and if they can get any support during these difficult years, we ALL will benefit from it in the future. DON'T LET OUR KIDS DOWN, THEY ARE COUNTING ON US!!!!!!!!! |
| 575 | Bill Schuldt | |
| 576 | Dan Bertrand | I strongly oppose any cuts in Medicaid reimbursement for administrative or transportation serivces in schools. |
| 577 | Dallas Rackow | |
| 578 | Julie Hine | |
| 579 | Jeff Curry | |
| 580 | Sara Crawford | |
| 581 | Gregory Urbaniak | |
| 582 | Laurie Lafferty | Cuts will cause significant financial issues for schools and familes. |
| 583 | Anonymous | |
| 584 | Susan Wagner | |
| 585 | dave steenrod | |
| 586 | Christine Ihde | |
| 587 | Norma Martin | Keep Medicaid reimbursement for school administrative and transportation services so that schools can continue to provide health services! |
| 588 | Lorri Pilkington | The care of students with chronic health conditions has increased due the number of students requiring care, the mandate for least restrictive environment and the expaned medical technology now required for management and care of students with chronic heatlh conditions. School districts are very limited in current mediciaid re-imbursement and have to contribute general funds to subsidize the care of students with chronic helath conditions. If this funding source is eliminated, the consequences will be devistating to students and families alike. The negative political and practical ramificaitons will be divestating! We currently staff the clinic with fulltime unlicensed staff...Without the funding, this position will be eliminated and book keepers and secretaries will be providing medical care along with their other job duties.... This is unsafe care of students! |
| 589 | Susan Kaney | |
| 590 | Mark Siekierski | |
| 591 | Cindy Dasher | |
| 592 | Linda Werntz | |
| 593 | Anonymous | Stop inflictiing pain on the most vulnerable members of our society. |
| 594 | Stan Messmore | This is a significant part of our budget and we can't affort to lose the funding. |
| 595 | Kathy Schmidt | |
| 596 | Will Gordillo | |
| 597 | Donna Cisneroz | Public schools desperately need and deserve this funding. Science has proven/research has shown that students need a healthy body and mind to do their best in school, hence the need for school-based health services provision. CMS (Medicaid) should continue to co-fund these services at the same rate presently in place, if not more, regardless of the child's medicaid eligibility. The burden should not be shifted to the local level - we have already taken on beyond our fair share of funding responsibilities. This is yet another reason why public schools are going broke and affordable quality educational services, including school-based health services, are grossly compromised. In my opinion CMS is attempting to shirk their financial responsibility in this matter. |
| 598 | Deb Hohmann | |
| 599 | Linda Dahl | |
| 600 | John T. Reese | From Washington State. I find CMS's position on the proposed cuts in Administrative Claiming and Transportation sadly ironic. The professed position of the Bush administration is "No Child Left Behind." Yet, the one agency (CMS) in the administration that is in responsible to see the poorest children in this country get the medical services they are entitled to is attempting to eliminate funding for programs that help meet the medical needs of those children. Tragically, Mr. Leavitt you know that the proposed cost saving is insignificant in the Medicaid annual budget but will have dramatic negative impacts on local school district budgets. |