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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most likely Medicaid. I have a child with special needs so I'm somewhat familiar with Medicaid (we don't have it) - a lot of children with costly medical needs are on Medicaid, based on the child's income alone. [/quote]

OK. So $10 million per child, and for example in Brazil we know they have thousands of microcephaly Zika cases. So that would mean increasing the Medicaid budget by $20 billion, give or take? Raise taxes, I guess. [/quote]

Disabled kids are eligible for medicaid regardless of their parents income. I know several extremely wealthy disabled children who are on medicaid. Their parents also get 40 hours a week of "respite care" also paid for by the government. These are families that make $400k+/year.[/quote]

So, where is the issue?  It is about the child's needs, not the parents.  Would you prefer they not get the help they need?  Respite services, ABA and other therapies even at $400,000 income doesn't always go very far and if they are that severe the kids need life long care.  Are you really going to begrudge someone getting medicaid for theire severely disabled child?  You do realize that could have been your child, correct?  What if that was your grandchild instead?[/quote]

I think until the child turns 18, there should be an income test. If the kid had cancer instead of a disability, the government is not paying for that. What is the difference?[/quote]

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