Child Health Day 2024 is on Sunday, October 6, 2024: More health care?

Sunday, October 6, 2024 is Child Health Day 2024.

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ALL children deserve health care, no matter if the family can't afford it, if the child is illegal (that is a whole different topic) or sick. Kids are being made to suffer, our government isn't helping us. No family should wait to have kids because they don't have insurance...but that is just my opinion.

(I don't like that people are here illegally, but kids need health care, they need to get vaccinated)

Here is my situation:

I live in close to you, in NY and insurance is expensive. My husband and I are hard working, we both work full time and have a baby, 10 1/2 months old (he works nights and I work days, no day care) and her insurance is $177 a month thru healthy ny, the state insurance and my husband's insurance is $265 a month (my wonderful boss pays for my insurance) how could a middle class family with a mortgage pay for $442 extra month just for insurance...it is crazy...but I am to affaird not to have insurance.

The No. 1 reason why there are so many foreclosures are in the US is due to high medical bills!

When you have a baby, the child is covered under the mother's health insurance for 30 days following birth...?

Not exactly true, for either of those.

You have 30 days from the date the baby is born, to ADD that child, to mom's coverage, or dad's coverage. IF you add the baby, the baby is covered retroactive, from the date of birth.

SOME state medicaid programs - welfare health insurance - WILL automatically cover the baby under mother's welfare health insurance, for the first 30 days, even if baby never gets added.

IF the baby gets added to both mom's private insurance, and dad's private insurance, the "birthday rule" applies, as to whose coverage is primary - whoever has the first birthday, during the year, is primary.

BUT, if dad does add baby, and you submit the bill, his coverages apply to the TOTAL AMOUNT, not just the part you have to pay. So, if dad also has a 35% coinsurance, then his insurance pays NOTHING, because yours already picked up 65% of the bill. If his has a 30% coinsurance, then his pays the difference - 5% of the TOTAL, not 65% of the BALANCE.

what is world health day?

April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization.

Over the past 50 years this has brought to light important health issues such as mental health, maternal and child care, and climate change. The celebration is marked by activities which extend beyond the day itself and serves as an opportunity to focus worldwide attention on these important aspects of global health.