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.
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.
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.
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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.