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Tennessee will become the first state
to provide families with baby diapers

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Posted By: OhioNick, 5/21/2024 12:50:05 PM

Many families are struggling with rising monthly expenses. For families with children in diapers, extra costs are really hard to manage. According to the National Diaper Bank Network, 92% of families receiving diapers in Tennessee are working and still are unable to afford an adequate supply of diapers. Fortunately, a new benefit for families with TennCare could be coming at the perfect time. It was just announced that the state's Medicaid program will start covering 100 diapers a month for newborns, infants and 1-year-olds. "They're expensive, so this is going to be a huge, huge break," said Doug Adair, president of Nashville Diaper Connection.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 5/21/2024 1:01:24 PM (No. 1722208)
Starting down the steep, slippery slope to 100% free government everything. They already provide MASSIVE welfare, why is this next level of welfare needed or any kind of a good idea?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 5/21/2024 1:04:53 PM (No. 1722211)
Yeah, moms usta wash the cloth diapers waaay back because there was no alternative except a laundry service that only the well-off could afford. Yeah it’s not fun but it frees up money to engage in the rest of the Bidenomic economy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: nwcudagal 5/21/2024 1:05:14 PM (No. 1722212)
BS...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 5/21/2024 1:15:07 PM (No. 1722218)
I believe that California already has subsidized diapers. Tennessee would not then be the first state to provide diapers. (Maybe I'm wrong.)
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Reply 5 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 5/21/2024 1:39:38 PM (No. 1722232)
I'm with #2. Cloth diapers and a washer/dryer will save you thousands over the first 2 years. Think about it, libs - no plastic waste, either.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: WWIIDaughter 5/21/2024 2:01:27 PM (No. 1722238)
Consulting work with Medicaid @ 8 years ago. Started seeing extraordinary increase in "diagnoses" for enuresis (urinary wetting) in 4 year-olds in the South Texas Valley. [This diagnosis can't be given to under younger kids because occasional accidents are normal for under 4s.] Along would come the doctor's Medicaid prescription for 100 diapers per month . Amazon lists 99 diapers this size for @$65. BTW, Pampers makes night-time diapers for kids weighing 70 (seventy!) lbs. National Library of Medicine Study shows Hispanic kids are far more likely to be obese thn Asians and whites. Black kids are 2nd most obese. Kids not starving, hooray! After 30 years of seeing these little schemes, I checked Craig's List. Packages of Medicaid-type diapers available at low, low prices by new little businesses doing nothing but resale of these items. Listen up, budding Craig's List sellers and flea market venders...Tennessee now new land of opportunity.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: philsner 5/21/2024 2:08:26 PM (No. 1722243)
Did they ask the taxpayers if they were okay with it?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: texaspast 5/21/2024 2:17:49 PM (No. 1722246)
Think of what percentage of the landfill garbage is used diapers . . . At some point, the greenies will start wailing about how bad for the environment disposable diapers are!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: jimincalif 5/21/2024 2:19:40 PM (No. 1722247)
Closer and closer to womb to the tomb.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Wetenschapper 5/21/2024 2:29:11 PM (No. 1722251)
I'd suggest that the diapers, given out at taxpayer expense to people who can't afford to have kids in the first place, should also include a pack of condoms and a certificate for a free vasectomy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Bur Oak 5/21/2024 2:30:41 PM (No. 1722252)
Tennessee to take from many to give to some people and bureaucrats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Vesicant 5/21/2024 2:30:55 PM (No. 1722253)
Can they use the diapers to tie their legs together?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rama41 5/21/2024 2:45:47 PM (No. 1722258)
Maybe they'll send some to the president.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/21/2024 3:01:51 PM (No. 1722265)
Some of us who with our siblings went through infancy with fresh cloth diapers remember the ammonia smell from the container that held dirty diapers. Oh yes, they were washed almost immediately but not instantaneously, so I remember the ammonia smell. BTW, cloth diapers required regular cleaning but sufficed quite nicely for infant Baby Boomers. Our parents needed only a washing machine and dryer. Now we're in a situation with an inaugurated--not elected!--Resident who is incontinent in public on an almost daily basis. He doesn't use cloth diapers. If he did, there'd be leakage. A lot of leakage requiring a suit change, as happened at the Vatican. The Resident (blanked) himself.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 5/21/2024 3:26:18 PM (No. 1722271)
They don't say but I guess they mean paper and plastic disposable diapers because actual diapers are re-usable cloth and no one would need 100.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Safari Man 5/21/2024 3:44:02 PM (No. 1722278)
Kick backs aplenty
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Harlowe 5/21/2024 3:59:18 PM (No. 1722293)
#14~ Yes, a trip down memory lane. For even older Ldotters, grandparents and/or parents may have used a washboard or a ringer washer, followed by drying diapers on a clothesline indoors or outdoors depending on geographical location and climate. Today’s disposable society not only throws away diapers but, more tragically and sinfully, babies in the womb or shortly after being born.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: AntiStatist 5/21/2024 4:19:31 PM (No. 1722302)
They breed them, everyone else expected to feed them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Catherine 5/21/2024 4:34:36 PM (No. 1722310)
# 5 - Back in the late 50's, my mother had two more children. I was nine years old. We just had a washer. So mom would wash them, then load them in a laundry basket and I had to go outside to a clothes line and hang three dozen diapers, daily. WIC already feeds babies from birth to five years old. They feed mom while she's pregnant. Medicaid gives them free medical care. Diapers is a step too far.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/21/2024 5:23:36 PM (No. 1722323)
Let it be known that this day forward, the State of Tennessee has changed their motto from "The Volunteer State" to "The Nanny State."
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Scribelus 5/21/2024 5:46:41 PM (No. 1722338)
Hmm. I wonder if the family needs a baby to make a claim. Diapers (unused) are fungible.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: mc squared 5/21/2024 5:54:21 PM (No. 1722344)
Can't afford diapers? You'll pay for them in Biden's upcoming tax increases. Or maybe you don't pay taxes
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Sully 5/21/2024 5:58:03 PM (No. 1722346)
#6 bingo! Like all socialist "programs' this is most assuredly a sweet kiss to the diaper industrial complex such as Johnson n Johnson, and who knows how many gvt lackeys who get a cutImeanAdminister it. Plus I'm just so jaded of selective compasson. Why pick diapers?
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Venturer 5/21/2024 8:39:10 PM (No. 1722428)
When was the last time someone had a baby shower and gave cloth diapers as a gift?
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Miss T 5/21/2024 10:31:16 PM (No. 1722481)
I never used the disposable diapers for my children, except when we were traveling. In my experience, babies under six months need ten changes per day, so 100 disposable diapers would have lasted just ten days. Do the parents now limit the number of changes to make 100 diapers last a month? That's not healthy. Why do we have sewage systems if it is safe to put human waste in the landfills? Disgusting.
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