For those who do not wish to take the time to read this wonderful piece of research, I present to you for your viewing pleasure, the video primer for this publication.
Despite the fact that the only way for most children to be released from the foster care industry is to age out, the only current viable alternative is adoption.
There are no reinstatement of parental rights laws that would allow a child to be reunited with the ones who are loved because the industry was intentionally designed to be that way. The child welfare system was designed to function to, by any means necessary, sweep its failures under the rug of secrecy.
The baby boomers will make sure there is protection in their precious Medicare programming, but will devote little, if any attention to the other side of the spectrum: Medicaid.
All they have to do is apply these same standards to Medicaid child welfare services, but no. The dead rules live on live! There has been a suspension of the Medicaid rules for regulation for the past few years and the child welfare propaganda machines want to make sure it stays this way.
The problem with fraud, waste and abuse in child welfare is well documented, yet it continues to be funded, with no contractual debarment, suspension, prosecution and recovery, or exclusion.
Unfortunately, child abuse propaganda machines will use every form of industry mastication, emotionally skewed and biased statistics to shove down the throats of the information starved public to maintain an industry.
The reason there is no regulation to stop Medicaid fraud in child welfare is because it is survival of the fittest, and children do not stand a chance when it comes to a multi-billion dollar industry.
The child welfare factory process children like this. Child protective services acquires the raw material. Foster care processes the children. National adoption month markets the final product to the public.
November is the national clearance sale of the child welfare industry. The warehouse is over-flowing with product, ready to be shipped, overnight to your front door, with a substantial bonuses and tax rebates. The child welfare industry must make room for the new season inventory. There are even manufacturer recalls.
Start giving and you will find there will be no need to hold blue light specials to encourage people to adopt and become foster parents.
Reducing the supply of foster children increases the demand for caregivers.
This is why I say the world celebrate National Adoption Month in a new fashion by adopting policies to end fraud, waste, and abuse in child trafficking which is better recognized as foster care and adoption.
It is time to close this dark chapter in the annuls of time.
Adopt policies to end Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.
The New York Times featured an article in its science section entitled: Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics. A better section to post this article would have been in business and finance.
I say this because child welfare has been notoriously ensconced in the shadows of child abuse prevention public awareness campaigns since its conception to never be recognized for what it truly is: an industry.
Of course, many will automatically stand up to defend such assigned moniker, but that is exactly what child welfare is, an industry.
The actual stock is not the child, but the legal grant of guardianship of the child, because whoever has been granted legal guardianship and/or custody becomes the benefactors of the interests of the child. An easier understanding can be seen in the child tax deduction credit. If the child is in foster care or a full ward of the state through termination of parental rights, there is no usage of the child's Social Security number by the "previous guardians." In instances of adoption, the child is assigned a new Social Security number.
As society invests in the "best interests of the child" to garner a profitable return of a future tax-paying and productive citizen, the basic laws of perpetuity apply.
PV \ = \ {A \over r}
Where PV = Present Value of the Perpetuity (a child's Social Security Number value), A = the Amount of the periodic payment [fee-for-service (i.e. Medicaid Targeted Case Management, Medical, Title IV-E)], and r = yield , discount rate or interest rate (the cost of services until maturity, or aging out the system).
Let's rewrite the equation using quantitative variables:
PV is now Social Security Number Value (SSNV);
A is now Medicaid (M); and,
r is Aging Out (ao).
So, SSNV \ = \ {M \over ao}.
The value of child's Social Security number is equal to the cost of Child Welfare Services provided over the time until the child ages out the system.
Qualified eligibility for Child Welfare Services is determined by the poverty means tests pursuant to Social Security Title IV-A. Simply put, foster care and adoption services were specifically designed for poor children.
Poverty has been codified as the crime of neglect throughout the States as the failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child. Where the only means for a child who is poor to access medical or any other form of specialized services is through entry into foster care, the child is, therefore, abused upon the eligibility determination of Medicaid.
Child abuse is not limited to the inability to afford medical resources. Child abuse is Medicaid fraud.
The major sector of the child welfare industry is protection of its fiscal and administrative operations. Since there is no accountability and transparency, meaning there is absolutely no regulation (i.e. contractual debarment, sanctions, revocation, prosecution), child abuse, or rather Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse thrives.
