All Texans worth saving
Re: "Pain and Profit: A preventable tragedy — When a giant health firm wanted to save money, a foster baby paid the price," Sunday news story.
For the state of Texas who is hellbent on making sure no unborn fetus with a beating heart dies, you are the biggest hypocrite not saving the lives of the already beating hearts across the state — young and old. If you are the great state you always tout, then all Texans are worth saving.
Superior HealthPlan and Amerigroup, in my opinion, you are vile, greedy and heartless. I will do everything as a taxpayer, voting citizen and with parents on Medicaid to eliminate your pathetic companies as our "managed-care companies."
Linda Gatlin, Richardson
Superior helped my mom
Your recent story on the state's managed care system was eye-opening but quite different from my own experience, which has been very positive. Last year my 85-year-old mother suffered a severe stroke. She'd been a member of Superior HealthPlan for over seven years and had an excellent care manager. Anytime I had questions, I was encouraged to call my mom's care manager day or night.
When it came time to find a nursing home, her care manager helped me to find the best place for my mom. In the process of transitioning her to the nursing home, I learned that my mom's Medicaid benefits had been discontinued by the state. I was frantic, but her case manager helped me apply for new benefits and even persuaded the nursing home to accept my mom, "Medicaid pending."
Robert J. Casias, Austin
Woes go beyond Medicaid
Although your articles are focused on the medical fragile within the state of Texas, the policies of Superior HealthPlan seem to negatively affect
