Originally Posted by sperbonzo

My wife has her own Pediatric Occupational Therapy practice and she comes home with stories like this every week. In fact, the patients that have the most taxpayer provided services are the ones that she has the most problems with as far as getting involved with their children's care.... or even bothering to get out of bed to get their children ready to be picked up, to be taken (for free) to the clinic each day.

She can relate hundreds of stories just like this one, and how Medicaid will pay for MANY times more treatments than your average insurer, and yet the patients receiving Medicaid don't even bother to send in a lunch with their kids, (after dropping them off in a Lexus), and expect the clinic to feed them, and even BATH them for free, which comes out the the clinics pockets. She told me one example of a mother, after being told that her child needed a simple pair of shoes to wear during treatments, went out and bought $80 sneakers for her 5 year old. She then cautioned the clinic to "not mess them up". When they asked her why she hadn't just bought some inexpensive shoes so that it wouldn't matter if they got scuffed, she replied "My kids need style". She was also on Medicaid.

I could go on for days with these. She comes home steamed about it every week.



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