My, oh, my—Nadya Suleman is back in the headlines again. The LA Times reports that Kaiser Permanente, the hospital where her octuplets were born last month, is applying for reimbursement of costs from Medi-Cal, the California version of Medicaid. That means that the good citizens of the Golden State are going to foot the bill for the births & neo-natal care that could well move into six figures.
Suleman has announced that she plans to support her total brood of 14 without welfare, although she’s already receiving nearly $500 a month in food stamps, as well as SSI for the three children so far with disabilities. & she’ll be eligible for more aid from various sources (including the ever-popular Medi-Cal) as a single mother of an entire farm team, which she’ll probably also term “not welfare”.
She also posits she’ll support her brood on student loans until she finishes grad school (time frame indeterminate).
There’s some confusion over the whole grad school thing, too. Suleman’s publicist announced that Suleman plans on starting a “business or enterprise that will allow her to get what she needs without needing to rely on state or federal funding.”
No word on book or movie deals. That sort of thing would cut into the Medi-Cal, though.
Interestingly, there’s a split developing in the united family front. Despite the launch by her publicists of a “Nadya Suleman Family” site (go find it on your own; I’m not driving traffic there), the primary purpose of which is the solicitation of donations towards raising the family (all major credit cards accepted), the earlier unconditional support of Suleman’s parents is starting to…turn conditional.
Angela Suleman, with whom Nadya & her six pre-existing children live in their three-bedroom house (who’d earlier painted a rosy picture of familial joy at the eight additions to the clan), is now grousing that her daughter has “no means to support” 14 children & that she has never contributed to food or mortgage payments. She also says her daughter failed to mention the $167,000 she’s received over the past ten years in disability payments.
This is definitely a story with legs.
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