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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of misinformation in this thread. To give you an example, I have a kid with profound intellectual disability. We are high income, but she is already eligible for Medicaid under a waiver for kids with disabilities. Now, there isn’t enough funding for this, so she is on an insanely long waitlist, but she is eligible. When she is 18, she will immediately qualify. Your cousin could have a mental health issue that qualifies her. You have no idea.

So, once my kid is 18, I will likely be paying for her food with SNAP and her healthcare through Medicaid, while she lives in my nice house and I drive a nice car. You can debate whether this is the right answer from a public policy perspective, but under current rules, she will qualify.

From my perspective, money is fungible and so by using those benefits, I can pay for other therapies, etc that are not funded for her. The reality is that even making more than $500k a year, we will never have enough money for her 24/7 care for the 40 plus years she could live after we die. Eventually, she will end up in a Medicaid funded facility.[/quote]

This is shameful. There are low income families who actually need this money. It should not be for people like you with 500k income. How do you sleep at night?[/quote]

Np. It's shameful that a disabled adult will be eligible for Medicaid and food stamps? Are you insane? She'll receive like $50- mayyyybe up to $300 per month MAX (probably less) in snap, and the food stamps program has never struggled for funds. And do you think someone who makes even $500,000 per year can afford the astronomical medical bills needed for a disabled adult, especially one living in a facility? Here's hoping you're just misreading the post and you aren't actually this cruel. [/quote]

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