adopted + medicaid (healthcare, insurance, financial, program)

[Wild Style]

anyone know the logic to why adopted kids get medicaid up to the age of 18? Regardless of earnings of adopted parents.

[metropolistraffic]

Ha. Well. Who knows what they were exposed to in those disgusting adoption agencies.

[Wild Style]

^^

good point. im not knocking it all. I am for a more socialist friendly govt and policies. I just wanted to know what the thinking was behind it.

[metropolistraffic]

I'm probably wrong, but, it does seem somewhat logical.

Or, perhaps it has to do with their birth.

Maybe the mother was a drunk, or maybe she smoked two packs a day, who knows.
The child could have very well be born with problems.

(And, Being exposed to various other ones in a place where quality isn't top, ehh. it may spread, haha.)

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

I'm adopted and I never had medicaid as a minor, I wasn't aware that was the case.

[Wild Style]

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.

[fishmonger]

Might be simply an encouragement to adopt. Since there's so many kids who never get adopted, I guess attaching an extra "gift" (subsidized healthcare) to them as an incentive couldn't hurt.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Wild Style

anyone know the logic to why adopted kids get medicaid up to the age of 18? Regardless of earnings of adopted parents.

Lets add to it why foster parents get a check monthly until the child turns 18..

Health Insurance for Adopted Children -
Medicaid

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 is federal legislation that is intended to help foster children find placement in permanent homes by providing financial assistance to their families. It dovetails with similar legislation at the state level. Among other provisions, the federal act "extends Medicaid or state funded health insurance to children with non federal (state funded) adoption subsidy agreements, if the children are determined to have 'special needs for medical or rehabilitative care' ... Under the Title IV-E adoption assistance program, Medicaid coverage transfers with the child to any new state of residence."

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Lindsey_Mcfarren

I'm adopted and I never had medicaid as a minor, I wasn't aware that was the case.

It began in 1997

[sherrenee]

Originally Posted by Wild Style

anyone know the logic to why adopted kids get medicaid up to the age of 18? Regardless of earnings of adopted parents.

This is usually only seen in state adoptions (ie foster care system) or in children that have a disability.