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When I becaome pregnant, I did not have helath insurance. As a small business owner, it’s very hard to find affordable health insurance. Well, when I tried to join Blue corr os Kaiser, my prengancy was considred a “prexisiting condition” and they could not accept me. Who knew being pregnant was synonymous with having a disease. So we tried to apply fir medicare, and our income was literally a couple dollars above the poverty line so we were not eligible. I would think something like this should be a range, not a line,making a couple dollars more doesn’t suddenly put us in some high income bracket. Well, we decided to make it work on our own, obrrow money, take a loan, payment plan, etc. After a couple months of paying prenatal care out of pocket, my daughter arrived 3 months early. We were immediately put on medicaid since they finally figured we could not afford this level of delivery let a lone the care she would need for 5 months afterwards. I am grateful that we have medicaid for her, it’s been such a relief, but there is much to chaneg and since she will be on it for qutie a while with her special eneds issues, I am in srong support of serious improvement. I often say to myself the only good thing about my daughter being born premautre was that I did not have to pay a cent. But i don’t want to have to make those statements. I would like to live in a country where despite your health or economic situation, you can afford to have quality health for your family.