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I might just have to dust off my ute for this one...
January 18, 2008
N.H. House votes to require insurance coverage for home births
CONCORD, N.H. -- The House voted Wednesday to require insurance companies to pay for children delivered at home by midwives in New Hampshire if the mother's plan would have paid for the birth in a hospital.Supporters noted that the federal government reimburses women for home delivery under the Medicaid program.
Currently, a woman with health insurance that includes maternity benefits must pay the entire cost if the delivery is at home.
And it's about damn time, too. I paid 10 bux out of pocket copay for a ridiculously expensive hospital birth for my first son, and about 1500 or so out of pocket for a very nice, healing homebirth for my second son.
While homebirth is not for everyone, and no woman should feel pressured to have an unmedicated birth...I think many women would benefit from having the option available to them without having to pay the cost of a midwife out of pocket.
And, hey...The Business of Being Born IS news to me, so I am glad Vanessa mentioned it.
(on a side note...I've noticed lately that reading blogs has become very alienating. I think a lot of you folks who are still blogging regularly assume the rest of us are in on all of the yummy internetty goodness that is out there. It makes me feel totally lost to read Pandagon these days, because names are dropped without any reference or link, and elsewhere, people say things like "of course EVERYONE knows about" this or that and such and such. Well, not everyone knows and not everyone has time to read up and keep up...so please don't talk down to your audience! We love you and want to be included even if we don't have time to keep up!)
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Wow, that's excellent news.Having home births covered by insurance would be a huge leap forward. Thanks for calling that out!