Conditional Resident and Medicaid

[immiprocess 1]

I am US citizen, and my wife have Green Card (Conditional Resident).

My wife is pregnant now, and she does not have health insurance, but I have my insurance through my employer, and my employer told me that I can not add dependent in my insurance and I need to wait till November 2014. I also missed obama care deadline and I am not eligible for enrollment.

Pregnancy without insurance plan is quite expensive. We are living in Houston, TX.

Please help me.I am in stress and I don't know what should I do? Is it okay if I applied medicaid for my wife?

[aaron2020 11,651]

Yes, your wife can apply for prenatal care with Medicaid.

If your income disqualifies her, you will new to buy regular health insurance from any insurer.

[NickD 202]

With even with "good" health insurance and this new super high deductible that started the first of this year. Cost my son $7,000.00 for my new grandson. $3,500 deductible for the new son, and another $3,500 for his wife. But at least now he is home free. On schedule A on the IRS forms, can only deduct what's over 10% of your medical cost on your gross income, before FICA and income taxes. So if you made $70,000, deduction is zero. So have to pay taxes on top of this!

As little as 30 years ago, only cost less than 500 bucks with a normal birth, included prenatal care, delivery, and three days in a hospital plus post natal care for the baby. Really do not feel Washington dealt with the real problems with health care cost. With inflation, should cost around $2,000 today. Oh, and another way the government is robbing us, printing more money that causes inflation.

With Medicaid, to get this, would have to be dead broke. Even making a buck more per year than poverty puts us in the super rich class.

Many families are put in the poverty range even with well above poverty gross incomes. Was put in this position with super high non-deductible immigration expenses. With super high FICA and income taxes, sales tax, high tuition and medical expenses, plus anything we buy, also paying all their taxes as well. But they just look at your gross wages, had this for tuition that skyrocketed as well as medical cost. Government is sure screwing the little guys on this issue. Then shipping our jobs to China.

[Jon York 156]

But even if you're dead broke, don't they take into consideration the income(s) of the sponsor and any co-sponsors? And if those incomes add up to more than the maximum allowed by Medicaid - they won't allow you to go on Medicaid, right?