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When this collapses, it will take the US dollar with it.
Look at the bright side, at least they were born and not aborted.
The question that I would have is how many of these births are to non-citizen undocumented parents. The child gets a US birth certificate and citizenship, the parents get a SNAP(food stamp) card and a guarantee of no deportation. Why wouldn’t people pay a coyote a few thousand to come to the US to have their child? It is a wise investment.
Just kind of puts the period on the end of the sentence that was Gary Johnson’s run for president.
There's a larger proportion of medicaid births per state versus total medicaid use for these states.
Would think they would be more inline with the total but medicaid births far surpass the percentages in most states.
“Idiocracy” was NOT supposed to be a “how-to” guide.
The old saying in Arkansas was ...”Thank Heavens for Mississippi!”
Now it is “Thank Heavens for New Mexico!”
NEW MEXICO! What has happened to my home state!
So what is the population of New Mexico? Old white people and young hispanics/indians? (Do Native Americans get medicare on the reservation?) I’m not being snarky, I’m pro-life and glad when people have babies, but I do find it disturbing that 72% of children born in a state are born to the poor, all these numbers are a bit disturbing.
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.
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.
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.