According to the Government Accounting Office:
"There are no Federal Medicaid requirements regarding the appropriate prescribing
of SGAs (Second Generation Antipsychotropics) to children."
According to HHS it is allowed to use foster children as test subjects for human research and billed to Medicaid:
"In addition to the provisions for waiver contained in §46.116 of subpart A, if the IRB determines that a research protocol is designed for conditions or for a subject population for which parental or guardian permission is not a reasonable requirement to protect the subjects (for example, neglected or abused children), it may waive the consent requirements in Subpart A of this part and paragraph (b) of this section, provided an appropriate mechanism for protecting the children who will participate as subjects in the research is substituted, and provided further that the waiver is not inconsistent with federal, state, or local law. The choice of an appropriate mechanism would depend upon the nature and purpose of the activities described in the protocol, the risk and anticipated benefit to the research subjects, and their age, maturity, status, and condition."
According to Congress, no one cares about poor kids because there are no civil rights in foster care and there is too much money to be made.
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