Selling a House to Get an Implant
Friday September 7, 2007
Another cochlear implant article of interest in today's news: From the Broward Times (September 7, 2007) a story about a family originally from another country, that is selling their house in order to get the funds for a cochlear implant for their child. According to the article, the family can not get insurance to cover the implant because of the child's pre-existing condition (remember they came from another country) and they can not qualify for Medicaid until they sell their home. Talk about falling through the cracks...
Comments
Good. Let those idiots do it. If they are going to install this crap on a child, they deserve to lose their house.
Unfortunately & ultimately, the Deaf child gets screwed… As usual.
Something is wrong with this article. I am a Medicaid worker in California (yes a Deaf person working as a Medicaid worker) and I know the regulations for the program. Each family/couple/single is allowed to have one house exempted. So if someone has a 2 million dollar house but only gets 700 dollars a month in income they are still eligible because we must always exempt the first house that they take up primary residence in. We include the other property but never the first house. If there are two houses then we count the more cheaper house as property value. The same goes for automobiles. Some medicaid programs do not exempt first autos but most of them do. Something is wrong with this picture and they are being advised apparently by a worker that is not a Medicaid worker. I get situations like this all the time where clients come in and tell me their social worker told them this and that when I am like who is your caseworker? them or me? The social workers cause headaches when they misinform people of programs that they aren’t familar with.
I agree with #1. The parents are already learning signs. let’s leave it be. Why do surgery? Ugh.
Boo. Hoo.
I don’t feel any pity for this family. If they cannot make things happen financially, there are other options like ASL.
This reeks of a dirty advertising ruse to encite pity and money from other people.
Err… I meant to spell “incite”, but you get the idea!
Agreed with Deaf258 — Boohoo! Pity me a river. I’ll teach you how to yowl.
R-
Why some people with no common sense for putting their finanical security in jeopardy for just an invasive CI surgery on deaf youngter.
Being deaf is not a matter of life and death!
We, deaf people must get together to pass the federal law to ban the Medicaid program to fund the unnecessary CI surgery on deaf youngsters!
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
It said they were from another country. You have to take that into consideration as to why they’re willing to go that far to give their child a CI.