Divorce= Health Insurance

This is really sad. This isn't the first time I have heard a story like this-unfortunately. I don't have the answer, but I think hard working people like this family should have another option. I wish health care wasn't such a big stress in so many people's lives.

FROM CNN: As the debate over healthcare continues, imagine this - being told you should divorce your spouse so that your ill child can have adequate health insurance. Sounds unrealistic? Apparently not, according to a Nevada mother, who found herself in that exact situation.

TERRI KING'S SON MATTHEW WAS BORN WITH A HEART DEFECT, THAT STRETCHED THE FAMILY'S HEALTH INSURANCE TO THE LIMIT."I would never have thought in a million years that in this country that families that do all the right things can be completely ruined."

MATTHEW WILL NEED SPECIAL CARE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE."There needs to be something available for the middle class people because health care is so unaffordable. There needs to be something for those of us that fall thru the cracks. because we fell through every single crack."

WHEN KING AND HER HUSBAND MICHAEL SOUGHT HELP TO COVER MATTHEW'S CARE, THE ADVICE THEY GOT WAS SHOCKING."That we should get a divorce. That I should turn over all my joint assets to Mike, get a divorce so that i could be a poor single mother then I could be on medicaid along with Matthew and then Matthew would get full medical coverage on medicaid."

THE KINGS SAY ANOTHER COUNSELOR SUGGESTED THEY GIVE UP MATTHEW FOR ADOPTION TO A RELATIVE, WHO COULD THEN COLLECT FULL BENEFITS FOR HIM THROUGH MEDICAID. EVENTUALLY, THEY CONVINCED THE LAS VEGAS POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHERE MICHAEL IS A DETECTIVE, TO INCREASE THEIR INSURANCE COVERAGE.

LAST SPRING, THEY ASKED THE NEVADA STATE LEGISLATURE TO HELP OTHERS IN THE SAME BOAT. A BILL TO LET THESE FAMILIES BUY MEDICAID COVERAGE WAS INTRODUCED. BUT THEN VOTED DOWN, LEAVING TERRI FURIOUS. "I would like to know how they'd feel if they were told to divorce their wife or give their child up for adoption. I just think that if they were in our shoes they would be doing something about it. But right now they never have to worry about it so it's easy to sit back and pass it back and forth and just do nothing."

-NewsAnchorMom Jen

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