Monday, May 7, 2018

More Poverty-Shaming: Opioid Moms, Michigan Children's Trust Fund, Medicaid Fraud & Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution

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St. Mary's Infant Asylum, an original foundling home



Michigan is so twisted when it comes to priorities in the general welfare of its citizens, or what I like to capture is the perpetuity of our most precious treasures, that the focus is on expansion of privatized programs, and not investing in the individual creators, themselves: The Parents.

This is the result of a carefully executed plan to impoverish the people, then steal the children, the land and the votes.

The Michigan Children's Trust Fund is the priority, not the people, hence the plan.

The plan is asset forfeiture, which used to be called tithing of your first born, if you were too poor to pay, or reimburse the kingdom for protecting you, or what I like to call neofeudalism, or rather life insurance policies to use as collateral for mortgages.

Just as Cinnaire.

Michigan Medicaid Targeted Population Cost Reimbursed Self Sufficiency Workforce Training Revenue Maximization & Asset Forfeiture Model



LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointments of Kathleen Trott of Birmingham and David Zyble of DeWitt to the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (Children’s Trust Fund).

The 11-person board promotes the health, safety and welfare of Michigan's children and families by funding local programs and services that prevent child abuse and neglect.

“I thank Kathleen and David for serving as a voice for Michigan’s children and families and for their dedication to keeping them safe," said Snyder.

Trott retired as an assistant attorney general from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office in 2013 and previously served as a litigation attorney at Trott & Trott, P.C. She is a board member of the Eckerd College Board of Trustees and served as a member and president of the board of trustees of CARE House of Oakland County. Trott holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Detroit and a law degree from Wayne State University Law School. She will represent the legal community and replaces Lena Epstein.

Zyble is the assistant vice president of Jackson National Life Insurance Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northern Michigan University and a juris doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He will represent the business community and replaces Karl Leuter.
Trott and Zyble will serve three-year terms expiring Dec. 19, 2020. Their appointments are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.

The practice of foundling, a residual of the peculiar institution has returned to Michigan.

Michigan may add Safe Haven Baby Boxes for moms to drop off newborns



Typically, these children are immediately removed by Child Protective Services as the medical community is a licensed professional subject to mandatory reporting requirements.

Foster care is in full capacity in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is a catalyst behind the mandatory work requirement for Medicaid.

These mothers obviously did not have access to prenatal care, let alone assistance for opioid addiction, which means they were probably one of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), having no place else to turn but to have someone advocate, for the best feasible possibly option to help these parents, with a box to drop off a child, like women of "The Poors"  who were shamed by society used to do.

At least there was one person from the medical community who cared more about humanity than being a mandatory reporter.

So, instead of poverty shaming a targeted population, the Detroit Free Press needs to do an investigative report on how this geographic region of the state has been thrust into the raging arms of poverty, just like the State's major city, Detroit, where its children are being born to opioids, grounds for termination of parental rights for the rights to the trust funds.

The tiniest addicts: How U.P. babies became part of opioid epidemic

Newborns in the Upper Peninsula are hospitalized for drug withdrawal at the highest rate in Michigan.


The moms are ill, addiction is a disease, the nurses know that. And the moms' lives are complicated, full of dysfunction that led them to seek solace in drugs.  But none of that makes their situations any less maddening or upsetting. "I have tended to stay away from some of the drug babies because I don’t want that attachment," Cathy Hebert, a NICU nurse, confided through tears. "You don't know what's going to happen to that baby when it goes home. If that mom can't take care of herself, how can she care for another life?"

The nurses still cry when they talk about the baby who died last year, a couple of days after being discharged from the hospital. He'd been with them long enough to be aware of his surroundings and to coo and smile at the nurses, which made them love him all the more. They knew he wasn't going home to a good family situation, which worried them. His mother, they recalled, was so medicated, on something, that she had difficulty forming coherent sentences; she even had difficulty staying awake during meetings at the hospital. They didn't have much faith in the baby's father, either.

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