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Mother Of Sextuplets Faces Loss Of Medicaid-Funded Nurse (Society has a responsibility, says Mom)
Associated Press ^ | May 8, 2005

Posted on 05/10/2005 1:27:46 PM PDT by Wolfie

Mother of sextuplets faces loss of Medicaid-funded nurse

WYOMISSING - A Berks County woman with year-old sextuplets and 4-year-old twins will appeal for continued nursing help from Medicaid beyond a one-year cutoff.

Kate Gosselin, whose husband has a 90-minute commute to a state job in Harrisburg, said she cannot safely manage eight small children.

The sextuplets - only the second set born in Pennsylvania and among fewer than 30 sets born worldwide - arrived 8 weeks premature but are thriving as they near their first birthday Tuesday.

"I will shout from the highest mountain that these are my children and I love them and I need help," Kate Gosselin said.

While the Gosselins appreciate the volunteers who streamed through their home in the early months, the children's routines improved with the arrival of Angie Krall, a licensed practical nurse who spends 30 hours a week with the family. Medicaid provides the temporary nursing support for premature babies, Gosselin said.

"She's fine-tuned and I trust her," Kate Gosselin said of the nurse, Angie Krall. "She's as good as a parent in this home."

The family cannot afford to pay Krall on their own, she said. Jonathan Gosselin, an information technology specialist who now works in the Gov.'s Office, was unemployed for much of last year.

Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

She has talked by telephone with Bobbi McCaughey, the Carlisle, Iowa, woman who delivered the world's only set of surviving septuplets in November 1997. McCaughey named the loss of privacy and the oversight of volunteers as among her biggest difficulties, Kate Gosselin said.

On the bright side, the Gosselin babies seem to have skirted the health problems that can plague premature babies and multiples. Each now weighs between 18 and 22 pounds.

"I look at six healthy babies and I feel a lot better, because it could be a lot, lot worse," Jonathan Gosselin said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cary; demograbber; giveme; givemegivemegiveme; givemethemoney; healthcare; motherhood; mykidsyourmoney; socializedmedicine; twins
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1 posted on 05/10/2005 1:27:47 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

Damn that accursed drug war!


2 posted on 05/10/2005 1:29:18 PM PDT by Skooz (Jesus Christ Set Me Free of Drug Addiction in 1985. Thank You, Lord.)
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To: Wolfie
"Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births."

Pardon me while I hurl!

3 posted on 05/10/2005 1:29:47 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
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To: Wolfie
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

What a load of dog poop.

4 posted on 05/10/2005 1:30:37 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Wolfie
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

In other words Kate decided to use fertility drugs.

5 posted on 05/10/2005 1:31:08 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: Wolfie

Sorry honey. Hostess promotes Twinkies, but they're not liable for my butt.


6 posted on 05/10/2005 1:32:01 PM PDT by Millee
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To: Wolfie

Well, why not. We're going to pay for illegal aliens medical care, so let's help this woman out, too, even though she's just a lowly citizen.

I guess Hilary was right. It really does take a village to raise a child (and a government run health care system, too).

Socialism, anyone? It's the coming thing.


7 posted on 05/10/2005 1:32:23 PM PDT by skip_intro
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To: Wolfie
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

This is in my neck of the woods. I'd like to tell her about responsiblity. Plus she works in a Rat Govs office, so it figures. And why is she working? Man, this is making me madder and madder.

8 posted on 05/10/2005 1:34:08 PM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded American Male)
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To: Wolfie
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

And I suppose 'society' forced you to use those drugs at gun point, hmmmmm?

9 posted on 05/10/2005 1:34:22 PM PDT by Godzilla (The 2nd Admendment - The Origional Homeland Security)
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To: Wolfie

Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

&&&

Huh?


10 posted on 05/10/2005 1:34:59 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: Wolfie

"The family cannot afford to pay Krall on their own, she said."

For the record: If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em.


11 posted on 05/10/2005 1:35:04 PM PDT by Machines Are Us
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To: Wolfie

i know raising eight kids is tough, but when did HER eight kids become the responsibility of everybody else?


12 posted on 05/10/2005 1:35:38 PM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: Wolfie
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children,

Nope, but you could try auctioning off advertising space on their diapers on eBay.

13 posted on 05/10/2005 1:35:47 PM PDT by ikka
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To: Wolfie

I wondered if she considered abortion as an alternative.


14 posted on 05/10/2005 1:36:40 PM PDT by Tungenchek
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To: stevio

Um, the HUSBAND works @ the Govs office.


15 posted on 05/10/2005 1:37:05 PM PDT by Machines Are Us
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To: Wolfie
modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

There's gotta be a lawyer willing to sue her doctor for inflicting these children on her. Somebody's gotta be held responsible!

16 posted on 05/10/2005 1:37:31 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: Godzilla

I don't fault them for using fertility treatments if they needed them in order to conceive and I am glad she elected to have her children in lieu of aborting the extras as so many are doing.
I don't believe that that entitles her to a LPN on staff at the government's expense.


17 posted on 05/10/2005 1:37:34 PM PDT by msp2004
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To: Wolfie

Someone needs to tell this freeloader, that society had nothing to do with the making of those babys.


18 posted on 05/10/2005 1:37:55 PM PDT by c-b 1
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To: skip_intro

I wonder how she'd welcome the financial aid if we all got to take them as a deduction on our tax returns :-)


19 posted on 05/10/2005 1:39:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: Wolfie

As far as our government having responsibility for this woman's children, I just can't agree.

But if this family were local, I'd certainly organize some sort of support function via my church.


20 posted on 05/10/2005 1:41:20 PM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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