Today I went down to the medicaid office to apply for health insurance for the baby and things just worked out smashingly (is that really a word?). While right now we can afford health insurance for the baby, once the baby comes Ted will be decrerasing his hours to just part time so that he can stay home with our son. Making it near impossible to pay for insurance once our son is actually here.
I have been stressing over how to get the insurance set up before the baby is born, but it looks like I was WAY ahead of the game. I met with a fantastic lady at the medicaid office who let me know that as long as I apply within 3 months after the baby is born his hospital costs will be covered as long as we qualify. And since we only have to claim that months income that we are applying in, our little man will qualify for medicaid or a low cost health insurance called CHP+. This has been weighing on me for months worrying about the sky rocketing cost of health insurance and its just a relief to know that our son will be covered.
It doesn't help Ted out at all, who we still can't afford health insurance for. I just wish we could have socialized medicine in America so that those of us who are not offered health insurance through our jobs would still have the same access to health care that others do. I could write another 10 pages about my feelings on Americas health care system, but I will spare you all. After all this blog is supposed to be about my journey through motherhood. So until then, I will just continue to dream that one day all Americans will have equal access to healthcare!
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