WHEELCHAIR BLUES

What do you think about this?

DENIED! DENIED! DENIED! This is how described
to me by Mrs. T. as she continue to submit in a
application to Medi-Cal over and over again for her
husband power wheelchair.

This is what I think "WHAT THE HELL".  The couple
went through a continuously process called RECEIVED,
REVIEWED, DEFERRED from 2005-2006
exactly one (1) year.

The Wheelchair Power Provider Program would deny
their application each time with responses that the Nursing
Home had felt there was enough staff to take her husband
around.  Mrs. T. did not agree because her husband informed her
that he would be in the same area all day in a wheelchair that he
could not hand push himself.  Finally after one (1) year the
complaint went to a supervisor and was accepted.

There was no reason that this couple should have had to
endure such agony for a power wheelchair that her husband
so desperately needed when the state at the time had a budget
of $50 million.

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Angela