A bill, Ohio HB 795, bans Medicaid reimbursement of family members for caregiver time for special needs kids. First, this doesn't affect me directly; though we've been encouraged to enroll as paid family caregivers for our son, we never have. Also, fraud is 100% real. That said
This is a terrible idea. If you have a kid with a serious disability, you can't just hire the local teen to babysit. It's almost always a family member who knows the kid's protocol. This isn't some kind of babysitting slush fund.
More importantly, you can't just send the kid to Primrose School or whatever for daycare or aftercare, because they're not really equipped for that. We have one of the few kids in the world where a preschool said "we don't want your money; we can't handle him" (this was in VA, before we moved to OH for the autism scholarship). We were lucky that I had a job that gave me quite a bit of flexability and that the stars aligned to allow me to leave the practice of law to take this job.
Yes, I know the stories of fraud and abuse, and could tell some myself from our community. Frankly, they're the ones I'm most angry at with this. That should absolutely be cracked down on. But this is ultimately launching a missile to kill a mouse, one that is going to hurt a lot of well-meaning, innocent people. @GovMikeDeWine@LtGovJimTressel@OhioAG@Rob_McColley@matthuffman1
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In a debate about ending a war, Miller said a congresswoman "advocate[s] for a terrorist regime everyday," called her out for getting "emotional" and then misspelt her name when he demanded she be removed from congress.