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tration seeks to foster.
In addition to being extremely cruel and unfair to individuals with mental illness and other disabilities, Medicaid cuts are fiscally irresponsible.
Limiting Medicaid services would not reduce costs, but simply transfer them to already overburdened hospital emergency rooms, homeless shelters, or even jails. Clearly, our communities will bear the costs the federal government seeks to shirk.
President Bush was right when he said the choices we make today'will determine the type o{ society we leave for our children and grandchildren.
What kind of society is it that would turn its back on people who need care for a mental illness?
Surely that is not the legacy we want to give future generations, or the vision of freedom we want to uphold.
Mary Schlegel
Executive Director Mental Health Association
of Fauquier County
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