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And now, broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. We're still on vacation. We're trying to get ready for 26. I mean, we've got a lot of shows to do in 26. We're just, we're studying up. We're getting plenty of sleep, taking vitamins, all that sort of stuff. But this is still replays of the Armstrong and Getty show. Yes, it's still early in the year and we're all brimming with optimism and cheery goodwill. Things will go to, you know what, soon enough. So let's enjoy some carefully selected replay stuff.

Highlights best of, if you will.

It's the Armstrong and Getty replay.

We've talked about this before, and you've had a comment about it, Joe, which you'll probably repeat here.

Starting, I'll start with this.

And I almost never work this side of the street about autism and kids' mental health problems.

But this is from the Washington.

That's the one that Byron York works for? Free Beacon or Washington Times? I can never remember.

One of them. Diagnosis rates of autism among children have more than tripled over the past 15 years. We know that. One reason, which

Minnesota's welfare scandal has laid bare with shocking details, is Medicaid fraud and abuse.

Now, we've been talking a lot about the Minnesota thing, and in particular, their fraud, which

might lead the nation. Medicaid pays health care providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism,

sometimes tens of thousand dollars a month for a single child, yet states rarely verify that

kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria for the disorder.

So if you put down that you've got an autistic kid, nobody confirms it or not, apparently?

Lisa Minnesota. He's quoting Alicia Finley's piece in the Wall Street Journal. Yeah. Or they get appropriate treatment from qualified specialists. You don't have to, one, confirm that you got a diagnosis or two, show that you're using the money for any sort of treatment or anything like that. The result is to have to get lots of money. Children covered by Medicaid or the government run Children's Health Insurance Program are two and a half times more likely

than those with private coverage to be diagnosed with autism.

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