In Ohio, parents of children with severe mental health issues may face an excruciating decision: To get their child costly care, they must sign over custody to the state. (wosunews)
custody to the state. Now those parents are fighting for change, and a chunk of Gov. Mike Dewine’s budget.As a child, Andrew Butler was diagnosed as non-verbal autistic with a severe intellectual disability. When he had outbursts, his dad Mark Butler would wrap his arms around his son.Experts told Butler: when Andrew is acting out, run.
But Medicaid wouldn’t pay for it, nor would Butler’s private insurance. That left the family with only one option. “Imagine if you had a kid that was suffering from an illness like leukemia,” Butler says. “And in order to get the medical treatment that they needed, the state was saying, ‘O.K., in order for your child to get the treatment they need, they’re our kid now.’ That’s basically what we’ve been going through.
"That sounds wonderful, but the unfortunate end result of that could be these kids really have nowhere to turn then," she says.
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