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children's health insurance to stay afloat. Otherwise I will simply be working to fall farther behind every month, and where's the sense (or justice) in that?
When you mention Welfare programs to most people, they grab their wallets.
"Welfare? No way! Those lazy bums should WORK for a living!" they cry. "You
can live better on Welfare than I do!" or "People just keep having babies to get a bigger check!" or "Look at those guys on workfare programs complaining; they could just go get a REAL job!"
People who depend on public assistance programs at any point in their lives are stigmatized. How many of you have
seen the person in line behind you at the supermarket scrutinize a food stamp
purchase? There had better not be any candy or soda or chips or decent cuts
of meat in that cart if the food stamp
customer doesn't want to endure the
scorn of other shoppers and the cashier! How many people have been turned
away from a doctor's or dentist's office because they weren't accepting new
Medicaid patients at present? Never mind that he was the last dentist you'd
been to, that you hadn't been in for two years simply because you couldn't
afford to go. Medicaid often means you are denied necessary medical care.
And then there are other programs that get lumped in with Welfare, such as
child support enforcement. Perhaps the custodial parent made a mistake in
choosing the person who was the baby's other parent. Without child support
enforcement services, many non-custodial
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