Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown said that despite what HHS says, the program is not “voluntary. The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks, he said. A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to intervention in school readiness and social-emotional developmental indicators. A farm family may be subject to intervention in order to prevent child injuries. The sky is the limit. Joshua Cook said that while the administration would claim the program only applies to those on Medicaid, the new law, by its own definition, has no such limitation. Intervention, he added, quoting Brown, may be with any family for any reason. It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or taking certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits.” According to Cook, the program will require collection of a massive amount of private information including all sources of income and the amount gathered from each source.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:32:35 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015