Trickle Down

I'm guessing that most folks saw Atrios's posts about Lauren Rainey, a young child beset with numerous medical issues who's about to lose her Medicaid funded nursing care thanks to a bureaucratic decision by Dr. Mary McIntyre, state director of Alabama's Medicaid program.

I won't go into all the details, but this line really woke me up:

Before walking away, Dr. McIntyre did admit she makes her final decision to deny care without ever seeing the patients. "There is no ability to go out for every single one and see every single patient."

Sort of sounds like the same, lame exuse our Dear Leader and his evil second-in-command use for not going to soldiers' funerals. Out of sight, out of mind...