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Good point. Now the CPAs will be like ambulance chasing lawyers – handing out their busines cards in the labor & delivery rooms.</p>
<p>I want to mention the emotional impact of these anecdotes again. While working in a free pediatric clinic, I remember an extremely entitled, nasty mom causing a ruckus. She had neglected to have her child vaccinated, even though these are free services. The kid was not being allowed to start kindergarten in the fall & she was angry that we couldn’t just load the kid up with dozens of shots all at once. Furious, in fact. It seems the shot adinistration schedule that the docs had worked out for her kid conflicted with their DisneyWorld vacation plans! That certainly rankled the nurses who were working at the clinic as a second job to make ends meet.</p>
<p>Now, was this mom representative of all Medicaid families? Of course not. But her behavior & the egregious nature of her actions/failure to take care of her kids health needs/entitlement attitude/scamming of the system still stays with me year later. Everyone knows a scammer, and it’s human nature to focus on the unfairness & perhaps assume the scam artists outnumber the honest folk…</p>