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A question about Medicaid. My daughter is 19 y-old and is pregnant. She is applying for Medicaid?

They are asking her to provide her parents income, since she still lives in our house. However, if my husband provide his income, she will probably be denied, because his income is good. At the same time, he does not want to take any responsibility for this pregnancy, obviously. She does not have health insurance, because she is over 18 and is not a student anymore. How can she have Medicaid, and still live in our house?

This rule simply makes no sense. How can they keep my husband, who is not her biological father anyway, financially tied to this pregnancy, simply because she lives under his roof, and at the same time, she is not eligible to be on our health insurance anymore? Makes no sense!

Update:

Wow... a lot of judgmental and self-righteous answers.

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  • Ann
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Obviously, you don't want to take responsibility for your daughter's actions so, the government should.

    Yes it makes no sense. But, it also makes no sense that a family who makes a good income wants the rest of us to pay for your daughter's baby.

    Medicaid should be for the truly needy, not for the people who are trying to back their way out of a personal problem they created.

    ETA: If someone asks for social services just because their problems they created of their own doing are too expensive for them to manage, that makes me judgmental. She isn't sick, she isn't handicapped, she is pregnant by her own doing. This is her problem and so she and her family, you, need to help her out. We all have problems and we are responsible for our own actions.

  • 1 decade ago

    Makes no sense is right! We taxpayers do not wish to fund her indiscretions. Pursue funding from the father, as it is his responsibility also. Additionally, she can work for much of the nine months. She can start any time now.

    Edit 1) Most respondents here have not responded judgementally, but rather matter-of -factly in that SHE needs to take responsibility and may need YOUR (not our) help in so doing. If you didn't want answers, you should not have posed the question.

    A secondary point - Your daughter is at the same time to be lauded for keeping the baby and not doing the cowardly thing. I do wish her success with the child.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    you may provide all the documents they ask for...and actually or which will be considered fraud, which in the experience that they got here upon out about, expenditures may be pressed, all that money may could be paid back, and so on, and so on. no longer a powerful theory to lie. it would not rely if she would not qualify, your husband won't be able to be compelled to pay for her clinical expenditures, she's an human being. So she will be able to in undemanding words could artwork to pay off her own expenditures. i wager the gadget figures if there is someone interior the homestead who makes sturdy money, than the loved ones is nicely supported, therefore monetary help isn't necessary, & ought to receive to a family contributors who's more desirable in favor. Your daughter & the daddy of the baby will in basic terms could separate the prices themselves, after all, they're those who created this infant. yet she received't be denied in any case, in basic terms because she has to supple your husbands income would not propose they'll be conscious that to her income, they in basic terms favor to carry close the "circumstances". the daddy of my newborn & I stay at the same time, I had to placed his documents down, yet he grow to be no longer considered in with the income guidlines, i grow to be nonetheless waiting to get the clinical card. Then after the baby grow to be born, she went on his coverage & the clinical card is used as secondary.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the way you get around that is to right up a rental agreement between you and your daughter. state exactly what she is getting such as room access to common living area access to kitchen and then state the ammount of rent to be paid. 300 a month+a third of the utilities? or a fee that includes the utilities.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Tell her to go for Plan B ---get a job and support her own baby.

  • 1 decade ago

    contact your local health department and ask. Is she in wic? See if she would qualify for that or you can ask them questions.

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