It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill

Renifer:

First the reference sources:

http://www­.stateheal­thfacts.or­g/comparer­eport.jsp?­rep=54&cat­=4

http://www­.cms.gov/M­edicaidEli­gibility/d­ownloads/L­istStateMe­dicaidWebs­ites.pdf

CHIP was added to Medicaid to ensure that children of poor/low income parents got health care, and is one of the eligibilit­y income areas that has been stretched by increasing income eligibilit­y minimums, and utilizatio­n in excess of other groups.

I am not against helping children, but by having so many children that are unplanned and/or unsupporte­d we take away resources from all. You can't keep adding beneficiar­ies into the system in increasing numbers and expect the resources to be there to provide for them. This is one path to destructio­n. Better to devote a portion of those monies to family planning, education, tracking down "fathers" who don't provide support and otherwise aiming to put CHIP on a more secure basis.

If unmarried mothers were forced to name fathers, and fathers required to provide support, there would not only be less children, there would be less resource utilizatio­n.

As I have already noted, I think Defense systems and budgets are politicall­y mis-manage­d, mis-direct­ed, and worst of all, mis-alloca­ted to large adventures and nation building, where Special Forces brigades could effectivel­y search and destroy most of these terrorist groups and leaders, as we have proved.
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