Printed on Could 12, 2014

Mom’s Day may be behind us nevertheless it’s not too late to present your mom a particular present. Let the mothers in your life know that medical health insurance is on the market by means of Medicaid and the Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program (CHIP).

Enrollment is open all yr spherical. Youngsters and youths as much as 19 can qualify totally free or low-cost protection – and fogeys could also be eligible too.

Advantages for households

Listed here are some methods well being protection helps households:

• You might be extra productive at work.
• Your loved ones shall be extra financially safe.
• You’ll be higher in a position to have interaction in child-focused actions – like taking part in open air and taking part in class occasions.
• When you’ve protection, it’s extra seemingly that your eligible youngsters will get lined too.
• Your lined youngsters usually tend to get the preventive companies they want.

Medicaid protection helped Catherine from West Virginia

Catherine Selen is a West Virginia mom of two younger youngsters who just lately enrolled in Medicaid protection. She struggled with diabetes and is aware of the advantages of the Medicaid program first-hand. Earlier than enrolling in 2013, she was hospitalized twice and ended up within the ICU after going with out insulin for 2 days.

“Being uninsured is dangerous sufficient, however when you’ve a life-threatening sickness… and likewise to be a mom… it’s actually scary. My youngsters have seen me sick and I need one thing higher for them – I do not need them to recollect me that manner. Now, with Medicaid, I can get the medication I want.” – Catherine Selen

Again to work and again to her youngsters

Catherine is again to work. She loves her job as a waitress as a result of she will be able to handle her payments and likewise prepare time to go to her son’s faculty and be lively in its mum or dad trainer group. That’s an enormous plus for each Catherine and her youngsters!

So, if you understand a mother who wants protection – for herself or her household – let her learn about Medicaid and CHIP. Getting well being protection for her youngsters is the form of current each mother loves, and never simply on Mom’s Day. Enrollment is open all yr lengthy, so why wait?