Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky
Friday, July 1, 2011
The facts about Michele Bachmann's foster parenting:
The Bachmanns were licensed by the state from 1992 to 2000 to handle up to three foster children at a time; the last child arrived in 1998. They began by offering short-term care for girls with eating disorders who were treated through a program at the University of Minnesota, said George Hendrickson, the chief executive of PATH Minnesota, the private agency that handled the placements .
He said the Bachmann home was “technically considered a treatment home,” which offered a higher level of reimbursem ent.
I think it's obvious from other scams or strategies employed by the Bachmanns over the years, they indulged themselves in government hand-outs on several fronts. Whether it was for farm subsidies for their farm or grants to train personnel at Bachmann's husband's clinic, Medicaid payments for both patients seeing Bachmann's husband or the foster children they took in, or 'foster parenting' of young girls (who were sent to public school instead of being home schooled like the Bachmann's children and used as domestic help, i.e., cleaning, babysittin
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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