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Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:22 AM Aug 2017

Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors

Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors
By Elizabeth Cohen and Katherine Grise, CNN
Updated 12:03 AM ET, Sat August 19, 2017

St. Augustine, Florida (CNN)When he was 11 years old, LJ Stroud of St. Augustine, Florida, had a tooth emerge in a place where no tooth belongs: the roof of his mouth.

LJ was born with severe cleft lip and palate, which explained the strange eruption, as well as the constant ear infections that no antibiotic could remedy.

With her son in terrible pain, Meredith Stroud arranged for surgeries to fix his problems.

But just days before the procedures were to take place, the surgeons' office called to cancel them.
Like nearly half of all children in Florida, LJ is on Medicaid, which has several types of insurance plans. The state had switched LJ to a new plan, and his surgeons didn't take it.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/health/florida-sick-kids-insurance-eprise/index.html
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