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62791. This is the podcast for March 17, 2017. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from the set of Travel Band 2, Band Harder. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

Hi, Dr. Glass.

Hey, darling.

How you doing?

Oh, it's been a tough week.

I've had a lot going on with kids' prescriptions.

And I think there's kind of a either work slowdown or let's just mess with everybody.

They're certainly messing with me and my kids, deal at the Medicaid

office.

And so, and part of it I know is that, and I think I've mentioned this before, like a lot

of states, Illinois has outsourced the management of their Medicaid program to a company.

Yes.

To do sort of managed care.

It's like an HMO.

And because the state doesn't have a budget, basically the company has stopped paying doctors and hospitals.

And so hospitals, both hospitals in Springfield and all of the doctor's offices that my kids attend,

have stopped taking that insurance.

Right.

And fortunately, I mean, the deal is that there are women working at these places who are mothers.

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