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Medicaid policy change?

When we adopted David, a part of the adoption decree was court ordered Medical Assistance until he is 18. This is because he was a special needs adoption and would have ongoing health care needs. We didn’t request special consideration for medical assistance, it was granted automatically as part of the adoption process for special needs children. Today I was notified by the PRTF where he resides, that medicaid rejected the invoice stating that David’s case was closed. So I called our county social services office and asked about it. Seems we have to reapply every year for his benefit even though it is court ordered. This is a first for us. We have never had to apply for it before, even before the adoption was finalized. I don’t understand this. It is a simple thing to complete the paperwork. It is 23 pages. That isn’t my point. How can

Who makes major life decisions

for our son? Turns out, it may not necessarily be his mother or myself. Quite frankly, it may not be the team of psychiatrists or other professionals associated with his case. It for sure doesn’t seem to be the psychiatric residential treatment center where he is a resident, or the school where he is in attendance. So then who is it? Is it some bureaucratic policy that is defined by people who have no knowledge or understanding of our son? Yep. You guessed it. There is this small thing called a Certificate of Need. If the certificate gets denied, he gets booted from the facility. Why? It isn’t up to the facility. Since David was a Special Needs adoption, he qualified for Medicaid until he turns 18. That is in his adoption decree. We knew going into the adoption that he was a special needs child. Do you know what

The reason for disabled kids….

There is a politician in Virginia who believes… ” disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. ” I won’t say his name, because that in my book would be akin to an endorsement. I say this Mr. Politician. My wife has never had an abortion, not that it is any business of yours. We have a couple of kids with disabilities. How do you explain that? I and a huge number of other parents of kids with special needs take offense at your words. Be happy I don’t live in Virginia anymore, I would do everything in my power to see that you got recalled. It is one thing to be against abortion. I am not in favor of it myself, but until I grow my own vagina, I am not going to tell a woman what to do with hers. However, to blame