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MILLS: "Most of the children now, even with -- with insurance, they don’t have services because services are so limited. They’re -- they're on waiting lists to get services. And -- and it’s hard for families with children with developmental issues or any type of disabilities to get on those waiting lists. And it takes forever, like I said, even with insurance to get those services. It can take years, and the families, the money they have to go through, the loss of time at work, the loss of time with everything. And -- and these children don’t get their needs met. And this is families with insurance. So, I don’t know how they’re going to take care of all the kids that are coming into the world that don’t have support, don’t have insurance, and the people around them to push them through and get them -- get them taken care of. We’ve got so many kids that, in a large city like Houston, that are on waiting lists for two years sometimes for developmental and for -- even for psychiatry. We’re going to need psychiatry for women and children. It’s hard to get a psych appointment for anyone. It’s hard to get the supplies they need. And then with -- there’s just so many things that they’re not calculating on that it’s going to, you know, take away from -- from families, and the families that -- that have to support these other children when they’re trying to care for these children -- these -- these children that have special needs, it takes away from everybody. It takes away from the other children when they don’t have the things that they need to take care of them. So, it’s -- it's really going to hurt a lot of people everywhere."