CURRENT EVENTS - April

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“… Oz claimed that New York’s Medicaid program last year provided some 5 million people with personal care services, which assist people in need with basic activities like bathing, grooming and meal preparation. That would add up to nearly three-fourths of the state’s 6.8 million Medicaid enrollees.

“That level of utilization is unheard of,” Oz said in the video, adding in his post that New York needs to “come clean about its Medicaid program.”

But the real number of New Yorkers who used those services last year was about 450,000, or between 6% and 7% of total enrollees, CMS spokesman Chris Krepich told the AP this week. He said the agency misidentified New York’s approach to applying billing codes and had since refined its methodology.…”
 
mpaer said:
Damn
Lets get those 15 yr olds to get pregnant
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Immigration would also help make up for our declining birthrate, but of course Republicans will never support that. So their option is to just "encourage" older women to give up their careers and have more babies, and to hope that teens get pregnant more often. Gotta keep that birthrate up no matter what, without bringing in more immigrants! What a world.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Immigration would also help make up for our declining birthrate, but of course Republicans will never support that. So their option is to just "encourage" older women to give up their careers and have more babies, and to hope that teens get pregnant more often. Gotta keep that birthrate up no matter what, without bringing in more immigrants! What a world.
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The best thing to address the birth rate issue would be to take meaningful steps towards addressing housing and affordability, and everyone knows that’s not going to happen.
 
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