Dental, CPS and Life in General

So, I've got a number of dental issues. The damage of years without cleanings because without dental insurance you can't afford these things and well, dental insurance isn't available outside of a job. So now that I have dental insurance I've been trying to get my teeth all cleaned up and taken care of. Well yesterday I had a root canal. The procedure was going ok aside from the fact that this dentist has big hands and it's in the back of my mouth and he just can't get his hands into my mouth without me having to spread my mouth so far open it hurts. Well just when they were almost done, of all things to happen, the instrument broke off inside my tooth. So of course he closed up the tooth and told me what happened and where I would be going. The only thing is he told me they would have a special instrument to remove the item which was wrong. Not that he knew or didn't know this. He didn't charge me for the procedure but I also didn't get the credit I had on my account applied to it. And where  I went to, they charge twice as much plus they wanted to charge me to remove something they weren't removing. In the end, they took that charge off and let me pay the total in two payments one being as far out as a Month and a half. But they didn't seal off the whole aside from yet another temporary filling and they shaved off more of my tooth making it very sharp. Which by the way is very uncomfortable. And I have to go another three weeks eating soft foods I can practically swallow whole. So frustrated with this. 

On another note, I also found out I will not be getting the kids. It's a bunch of BS to give the kids back to a family member who sat there and watched a 6 year old grab a knife, put it to his throat and say that he hated his life and the way they dealt with it was to turn around and drop the kids at CPS. Yet they want to get permanent custody of the children. Not to mention they are supposed to allow other family to visit the children but they wont. My children and I would like to see them. It's been over a year and my children ask about them all the time. Supposedly the Foster Parent was going to call but she didn't even do that. It's so sad how things work out but all I can do is continue to pray about it and leave it is Gods hands to take care of.

~Amanda Kay

The Government, Child Support, Medicaid and Single Moms

So, Child Support is supposed to be for the kids right. And Medicaid is supposed to ensure kids are healthy and have health insurance available. Single Moms need these things more than whole families and these things are provided by the Government. So tell me why if you are a complete family, man, woman and children, you never have to pay these services back but yet if you are a single mom getting child support, that's the first place your money goes? What I'm seeing is that Single Moms have to first pay the Government back for the Medicaid they have for their children. But yet whole families never pay back a dime. Single Moms work hard to provide for their children and must receive child support in order to get any help from most Fathers. Yet the money doesn't even go to them. So being in my shoes, I no longer need Medicaid as I now have private health insurance and so I let my Medicaid go. In doing this I was informed that once the OAG received the letter from Medicaid that our coverage had ended that the $300 they take out each month to pay the Government would come to me to pay for the Health Insurance I have on my children that doesn't prevent me from taking my children to their doctor like the Medicaid does. Well I let it go and sent in copies of my Insurance Cards to the OAG and everything as I was instructed. But now today they tell me they never received anything and that my children now have Chip Medicaid. I never applied for Chip Medicaid. I never renewed my Medicaid and received Cancellation Letters. I also never turned in any paperwork for income that they would have requested from me. Nor do I want the Medicaid as my children cannot see their doctor with it. So now I have to figure out how to cancel this. Then I have to take the time to set up a Change Order for the Child Support to remove the Government from taking $300 a month for Medicaid I do not have, need or want. And instead have it sent to me to pay for their insurance. In order to do any of this, I have to take off from work and do tons more paperwork and instead of making money to support my children, spend my time fixing the mistakes of the Government. I don't know who came up with the rules for this but they sure have a great deal of stupidity if you ask me and all the other Single Moms paying the Government so that they can receive Child Support and Medical Support for their children. And because of it I now have a big mess to fix. You got to love the troubles that find their way to me. Troubles I don't have time to deal with but will figure out.

~Amanda Kay