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Old 03-22-2008, 05:54 PM
 
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This is usually only seen in state adoptions (ie foster care system) or in children that have a disability.
You get it regardless if they are disabled, but you are correct.. Its only if your adopting children from the government, not privately.
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Old 03-22-2008, 06:56 PM
 
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anyone know the logic to why adopted kids get medicaid up to the age of 18? Regardless of earnings of adopted parents.

I have an adopted daughter and I can assure you that this is not the case at all.
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Old 03-22-2008, 06:58 PM
 
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anyone know the logic to why adopted kids get medicaid up to the age of 18? Regardless of earnings of adopted parents.

I have an adopted daughter and I can assure you that this is not the case at all.
If you adopted after 1997, and did your adoption through the government, not private adoption, then you should have been offer insurance. Some choose to take it, others choose not to.
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Old 03-22-2008, 07:15 PM
 
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pghquest

thank you for the clarification!

Do you know the logic as to why?

*edit*

I read what you said about the foster care kids. That I get 100%. I worked in a homeless shelter for teens for awhile and some of those foster kids need all the help they can get. But generally adoption is a more stable and loving environment. When adopted parents are making 75,000 a year or over, kids are still getting the medicaid, i was just trying to understand why.
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Old 03-22-2008, 07:20 PM
 
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pghquest

thank you for the clarification!

Do you know the logic as to why?
Foster children get medical insurance by nature of being a ward of the county/state to which they reside. Foster parents used to hold back on adoption because it was easier/better to foster parent rather then adopt in order to continue to receive financial support and medical. The minute a foster parent adopted, the benefits (i.e. monthly stipend and insurance) dropped and no one wanted adopt and it kept the kids in the system their whole life. (I'm a product of one having been a foster child for 16 years).

This was one incentive to get people to make the move from foster parenting to adoption..

I dont particularly agree with it, but I understand why it exists.
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Old 03-22-2008, 07:23 PM
 
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ahhh okay, thx.

At the homeless shelter I worked at we had a lot of kids who were foster kids, and when they hit 18 the foster parents would give them the old "nice knowing you but you gotta go" routine. So anything to stop crap like that from happening I am for.
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Old 03-22-2008, 07:31 PM
 
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ahhh okay, thx.

At the homeless shelter I worked at we had a lot of kids who were foster kids, and when they hit 18 the foster parents would give them the old "nice knowing you but you gotta go" routine. So anything to stop crap like that from happening I am for.
My aunt is a foster parent for older children and yes, that was their attitude. She went so far as to request the county to buy christmas presents for the children she had in her home. Drove me nuts that someone in my family had that type of attitude.
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Old 03-22-2008, 11:04 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Lindsey,

yeah man. My wife is a psychologist and some of her patience are adopted and all of them have it. Maybe it is something that was enacted recently? I don't know but ALL her adopted patience have it.
Are these children that were adopted through the foster system or private adoptions. I wonder if that makes a difference or maybe it is just a recent thing.
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Old 03-22-2008, 11:10 PM
 
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Are these children that were adopted through the foster system or private adoptions. I wonder if that makes a difference or maybe it is just a recent thing.
I asked my wife again and as PG point out, its only the ones adopted via the govt/foster care
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Old 03-22-2008, 11:11 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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I asked my wife again and as PG point out, its only the ones adopted via the govt/foster care
I saw that after I posted, I was a private adoption and was adopted when I was 3 days old.
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