Comments on: Episode 58 – Racial Bias In Foster Care http://fosterpodcast.com/episode-58-racial-bias-foster-care/ Join foster parents Tim and Wendy as they discuss foster care and adoption. With humor, insight and Christian faith, they share their everyday ups and downs as a foster family with hopes of adoption. Get your questions answered about the foster and fost adopt system while following Tim and Wendy as they journey through the process. What is it like to deal with the system? Are all social workers really jaded? How intrusive is it on your life? All these questions and more will be answered from a real-life perspective. Watch out! You may find yourself thinking about fostering or adopting too! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Beverly Tran http://fosterpodcast.com/episode-58-racial-bias-foster-care/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 Beverly Tran Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:36:51 +0000 http://fosterpodcast.com/?p=100#comment-1066 The amount of power and money involved in child welfare is massive, involving multiple funding streams of Social Security and Medicaid, yet pails to the levels of waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect for eligibility of a child entering foster care is strictly based on being impoverished. Hence, as poverty increases so shall the number of child removals to foster care. Billions of dollars of federal fraud are found through only cursory audits conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and U.S. Department of Justice, Additionally, OIG has identified a number of State financing arrangements and other revenue-maximization tactics that inappropriately increase Federal Medicaid payments to States. Children are being double-billed, provided for unnecessary medical services and phantom programs are funded that bill fictitious children and services. This is what is called fraud, or more intuitively, federal false claims. Every year, lawyers across the nation are settling an increased number of lawsuits against states, child placing agencies and foster parents to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, all because the nation has not had the opportunity to be exposed to the child welfare industry for what it is: a market. Shrouded by the FOIA laws, states are able to construct federal funding schemes in what is termed as "the best interests of the child". As for understanding why there exists racial bias in Michigan Foster Care, one must possess the financial sophistication to be able to muddle through federal funding structures to know that child of non-European decent hail more money because they are automatically classified as "special needs" or what is more readily recognized as "at-risk". Secondly, the only way for these families to access medical and other resources for the children is for them to be placed under the aegis of the state. Perhaps the time has come to depart from the mentality of "snatching" children to correct the situation, to "foster parenting" to the families by keeping the children in the home. Beverly Tran The amount of power and money involved in child welfare is massive, involving multiple funding streams of Social Security and Medicaid, yet pails to the levels of waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect for eligibility of a child entering foster care is strictly based on being impoverished. Hence, as poverty increases so shall the number of child removals to foster care. Billions of dollars of federal fraud are found through only cursory audits conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and U.S. Department of Justice, Additionally, OIG has identified a number of State financing arrangements and other revenue-maximization tactics that inappropriately increase Federal Medicaid payments to States. Children are being double-billed, provided for unnecessary medical services and phantom programs are funded that bill fictitious children and services. This is what is called fraud, or more intuitively, federal false claims.

Every year, lawyers across the nation are settling an increased number of lawsuits against states, child placing agencies and foster parents to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, all because the nation has not had the opportunity to be exposed to the child welfare industry for what it is: a market. Shrouded by the FOIA laws, states are able to construct federal funding schemes in what is termed as “the best interests of the child”.

As for understanding why there exists racial bias in Michigan
Foster Care, one must possess the financial sophistication to be able to muddle through federal funding structures to know that child of non-European decent hail more money because they are automatically classified as “special needs” or what is more readily recognized as “at-risk”.

Secondly, the only way for these families to access medical and other resources for the children is for them to be placed under the aegis of the state.

Perhaps the time has come to depart from the mentality of “snatching” children to correct the situation, to “foster parenting” to the families by keeping the children in the home.

Beverly Tran

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