Advocates decry autism bill (Leader-Telegram)

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Advocates decry autism bill

Assembly plan does not require insurance companies to provide coverage for kids
By Eric Lindquist
Leader-Telegram staff

Though the state Assembly is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would authorize enough additional state spending to eliminate the waiting list for families needing treatment for autism, it's not a day of great anticipation for autism advocacy groups.

Groups and families they represent had hoped for much more after the state Senate last week passed a bill advocated by Gov. Jim Doyle requiring insurance companies to provide coverage for autistic children.

But with the legislative session scheduled to end next week, the Assembly version of that bill is languishing in committee and Assembly Republicans have put forward what they call a compromise bill expanding state assistance.

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Governments shouldn't really be involved in healthcare at all since most politicans aren't doctors...

Then they also shouldn't be involved in defense of the country either because they aren't soilders, or involved in developing roads because the aren't construction workers, or in education because they aren't teachers.

See the flaw in this thinking?

Politicians are policy makers. They are elected by the people that decide policy or tell the health workers what priorities to treat, not how to treat it.
Politicians consult professionals in the crafting of bills to ensure that they workable, and many times, the experts in the fields actually write a good portion of the bills themselves, and elected policy makers try to get them through the system to become law.

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