Senior Citizens Feeling Pain With Privatization

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Senior Citizens Feeling Pain With Privatization
Indiana's News Center
October 8, 2008
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/30653829.html

Many people were upset when the Indiana Toll Road was privatized.

But now that some of Indiana's welfare services have been privatized, people are once again speaking their minds.

Leaders from the Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans along with the Indiana Home Care Task Force met to talk about how the state's privatized Medicaid and food stamp services are hurting senior citizens.

These groups say the basic needs that some seniors could normally receive through either Medicaid or food stamp assistance is not as easily available to them through privatization. The reason for this is because of poor customer service skills on the part of privatized firms and the senior’s inability to use the Internet.

And because of this, some officials say that the burden of caring for these people has moved from the state to non-profit organizations that help assist people and already struggle with the issue.