FSSA seeking Medicaid expansion for pregnant women
FSSA seeking Medicaid expansion for pregnant women Save Email Print
Indianapolis, IN
Posted: 6:25 AM Aug 22, 2008
Last Updated: 6:25 AM Aug 22, 2008
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A Family and Social Services Administration officials says the agency has reversed course and will seek federal approval for presumptive Medicaid eligibility for low-income pregnant women that would help them get prenatal care.

FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob says the agency also might seek to expand enrollment in its State Children's Health Insurance Program to children in households earning up to three times the federal poverty level.

Both expansions of the state's Medicaid program were included in the 2007 law that authorized Gov. Mitch Daniels' Healthy Indiana Plan, which provides medical savings accounts for low-income adults. But FSSA has been slow to adopt them.

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Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 22, 2008 at 04:56 PM
I say you should have to have been married before and during your pregnancy to quailify. There are just way to many unwed mothers having babies that can not afford them. Maybe it is also time to hold the sperm donors responsible too.

Posted by: louise on Aug 22, 2008 at 01:32 PM
And how MANY babies will my tax dollar have to pay for. If you can't afford to have a child, do not have one of which mostly are "single" mothers.

Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 22, 2008 at 12:19 PM
pretty bad, pregnant woman can get help with a child they can't afford and someone that has worked all there life can't get medicade?? Something wrong with this picture, no wonder the system is going broke, nothing against children, but I think there should be a limit...


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