Posted on 03/25/2017 3:23:03 AM PDT by tired&retired
In 24 of the nation’s 50 states at least half of the babies born during the latest year on record had their births paid for by Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
New Mexico led all states with 72 percent of the babies born there in 2015 having their births covered by Medicaid.
Arkansas ranked second with 67 percent; Louisiana ranked third with 65 percent; and three states—Mississippi, Nevada and Wisconsin—tied for fourth place with 64 percent of babies born there covered by Medicaid.
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I hear what you are saying, but no amount of labor induced border crossing is going to account for these high percentages.
Isn’t social justice just swell? That 14th Amendment sure comes in handy. Anchor babies, fag marriage . . . the 14A is very versatile.
NM is quite rural, and most of the population falls below federal poverty limits.
adding a #4:
Aid groups put more and more people on government programs in NM to increase their budgets, get more money next year. If we don’t spend it this year, they won’t give it back to us next year and more.
Native Americans get government benefits, yes.
At our local hospital, Watsonville Community, on the Central California Coast 85% of all births are covered by Medi-Cal (Medicaid). Ironically 85% of the students attending the local schools are eligible for the “free” lunch program.
And here is the fourth which a couple of my relatives fall under: Mom and Dad get married and there is enough household income that medicaid is lost but insurance premiums are too expensive. I have more than one relative unmarried and with a child because it’s financially advantageous. It will take a promotion/better paying job/job with better benefits from each in the couple to afford insurance and marriage.
Another isn’t adopting the kids he’s raising from his wife’s previous marriage, mainly because they qualify for medicaid and free lunch if she is the only parent on paper.
Thanks for answering!
Much of this is due to planned parenthood, women who planned to get pregnant out of wedlock to qualify for the various government ‘entitlements’.
Several things with New Mexico. Many women from Mexico that do not live here and never intend to live here make sure they have their babies here. Notice all the border states are toward the top of that list. Somehow their bills are paid, even though they are not supposed to be eligible for Medicaid. Those that cross just to have their babies is in addition to those that are living here illegally also having babies here.
The state is low income, always has been though so that is not the whole answer either. Just 15 years ago there was a doctor in this area that delivered babies for a trade out in beef or horses or other things he wanted. That is how a lot of rural people used to pay doctors even in recent history. As those doctors retired I haven’t heard of anyone doing that for a while. Now those people get signed up for some program or another.
New Mexico did not make a big deal of it but they did some sort of Medicaid expansion because I heard of people getting on it that did not previously qualify. Hospitals used to set up payment plans for low income and now hospitals make sure they get signed up for Medicaid so they don’t have to fool with payment plans.
Huge meth problem in rural towns for sure, maybe everywhere. Young adults on meth, don’t work but do get pregnant. Seems many of these meth heads are on programs- especially the women with kids.
I know they really push the programs- hard sale. One of my daughters had a baby last year. My daughter and Son-in-law are definitely not low income and have great insurance. Yet social workers kept bothering her to do paperwork for Medicaid. She kept assuring them she did not need or qualify but they persisted until she finally told the nurses not to let them back in her room. It was truly annoying.
Combination of things, nothing to be proud of for sure. I think all the programs have been expanded considerably the last few years. A beginning solution would be to make all programs harder to get so those that can work will go to work.
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There are several reasons for this...mostly low income ladies.
1. Mom is not married and not covered by parents insurance.
2. Mom is married but they don’t have a high income or insurance from work so they are eligible.
3. I don’t know if they are doing this now, but when I worked in the Indian health service, we put our ladoies on medicaid to stretch our inadequate budget.
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Sorry, incorrect. There is only ONE reason for all this: Govt.
1) *GOVT* ‘promotes’ the non-worker, the breeder and the destruction of the nuclear family...aka Uncle Sugar.
2) *GOVT* STEALS and violates the Rights of all, w/ their forced ‘charity’ to support #1, reducing the ability of one to care for\support theirs, themselves, their family/friends/community, etc.
3) *GOVT* growth (extra-constitutional\illegal) that requires an ever growing tax base that now requires both heads-of-household to pay their ‘fair share’ to Fedzilla.
4) It is *GOVT* distortions of the Free Market (extra-constitutional\illegal) that exacerbates all else: increases medical costs/time, denies research/drugs (IE: those in EU for last 40+yrs), 3rd party pay/tax breaks instead of those utilize said services, etc.). Govt created entities (IE: HMOs), govt created monopolies, govt ‘laws’\regs\rules that keep out competition\start-ups.
Remove *GOVT* and return charity\costs to their rightful levels THEN see what tweaks need (can) be made...per the Constitution.
People living w/ the consequences of their own actions again.
“NEW MEXICO! What has happened to my home state!”
Between all the illegals, and all the libtards moving here to escape whatever libtard hell-hole they came from, the invasion is really changing the state from what used to be sort of traditional, old time, democrats, to a highly socialistic “progressive” type of FAR left wing delusional pie-in-the-sky type of government. Places like Santa Fe and Silver City have elements there that would give Berkeley, Boulder, and Portland a real run for their money on who is the most “progressive”. It’s really sad, because it’s infecting rural communities too. The sate is becoming East California in many ways.
I own a small business in NM.
We (my wife and I) paid for our own health insurance before Obamacare. $385 a month with a $1000 deductible.
When O-care came about, they raised our premiums to $1800 a month with a $2000 per person deductible.
We went on the government web site to see if we qualified for a subsidy. Nope. We make TOO LITTLE money and MUST go on Medicade. We had no choice.
It seems that about half of the state falls under the poverty guidelines. We also have a fairly low cost of living.
This is one of the things about Federal programs. In New York if a husband and wife only bring in $40K a year, they are POOR. In New Mexico, $40K a year allows us to have a 3,000 SF home. One size does not fit all.
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