I have wonderful insurance. I'm blessed and I know it.

However...

My precious little nephew gets state medicaid (one reason I want to adopt) and it's hard to get him treated by a good doctor. He's four years old and deserves ONLY THE BEST this world has to offer, but doesn't get it alot when it comes to his medical treatment.

He has to see one of the very few peds that take medicaid. Recently he needed a procedure done on his toe. We couldn't find anyone to do it and those listed with his medicaid (pardon me) sounded like an advertisement at the local mall. I paid to have him seen at children's hospital, then had to scratch and fight to get approval to have his procedure done there.

A few months ago, he needed dental work. There are two dentists in the area that take his insurance. The first one was so mean and ugly that it took all I had not to cross the room on him. Well, I did, in fact. He needed work so I took him to a ped dentist and because of his insurance they had to do EVERYTHING at once on this little four year old which consisted of shots on both sides of mouth (several) and two big silver caps showing because insurance would approve no more.

Please don't think I'm only griping. I realize that it's a blessing he has this period, but because it's a blessing in one respect, does that make it good or right for our babies?

The surgeon at children's said I did so good because "they" would've hurt him badly. He said, "Why? Children are tough? No, they just have the smallest voices."

I don't know about socialized insurance, but I do know that our children need more than what medicaid offers them in this area.

Also, it's my understanding that medicaid and medicare are vitually the same here as well.

KD

Edited to add...

My boy hasn't even had an antibiotic in his life yet, but two of the very few prescription meds he's needed medicaid wouldn't pay for. He has severe environmental allergies...phlegm so bad that he can't eat and will get sick at times, so meds are necessary at times. We have to pay for that out of our pocket because medicaid won't pay. He's already small. What if he was with mama and daddy and I wasn't around to pay for it for him, ya know?