Perhaps Texas and other states should screen and monitor their Medicaid recipients more closely.  They were covering two able bodied adults who were "employed" selling drugs, with a 8 year old (not enrolled in school for 4 weeks last spring) and infant in tow.  How do I know this?  I have the Texas Medicaid statement because we took in the two children as both of their parents were supposed to be in drug treatment (more like they were running from law enforcement). One parent (father of the baby) committed suicide, and the mother took off, leaving two of her three children (all with different fathers, the oldest having been taken from her by the courts) in the care of others.  Of course, though, the mother refused to allow us to adopt the children.  Can you imagine the trash that has filled the 8 year old's head, as she has latched onto every man her mother allowed into her bed, since she never knew her incarcerated father? This is what we get when the government assumes parental roles - paying for services for able-bodied adults -  in exchange for votes.