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Taxpayers may have to cover octuplet mom's costs
Breitbart.com/AP ^ | Feb 11 2009 | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER

Posted on 02/11/2009 3:51:43 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.

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Suleman received disability payments for an on-the-job back injury during a riot at a state mental hospital, collecting more than $165,000 over nearly a decade before the benefits were discontinued last year.

Some of the disability money was spent on in vitro fertilizations, which was used for all 14 of her children, Suleman said. Suleman said she also worked double shifts at the mental hospital and saved up for the treatments. She estimated that all her treatments cost $100,000.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freakshow; octuplets; suleman
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To: fivecatsandadog

Nobody has any business denying fertility treatments to single women, many of whom have been getting taxed to support other people’s children for years. The crack whores and meth heads have all the babies they want the natural way, and working single women are forced to pay for the medical bills of the mothers and children, their housing, food stamps, substance abuse counseling, special education, and all the rest.

Eliminate the handouts and go back to orphanages, and simply take children away from parents who can’t support them and don’t have any relatives, friends, or neighbors willing to pick up the tab. This would put an end to the phenomenon of women having babies in order to get handouts.


21 posted on 02/12/2009 4:35:33 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Palladin
This girl is so crazy—so delusional. Yet crafty enough to milk the System for all it’s worth.

She may be crazy, but so are all the taxpayers who have allowed the socialist system to grow like a cancer and enable all this.

22 posted on 02/12/2009 4:41:06 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: sodpoodle

“a mentally challenged virgin”

Er, How did she get the first six kids?
Were they adopted?


23 posted on 02/12/2009 4:55:06 AM PST by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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