I found out today that my employers' health insurance will cover an abortion for your dependent teenager if she gets pregnant, but won't cover prenatal care and delivery if she decides to have the child. This just seems weird to me - does anybody know about their employer policy, or would you be willing to look? I wonder if it's industry standard or my employer being butt-headed.
flea, it might be tied into your state's insurance regulations or laws. Are teens who give birth automatically emancipated, in your state?
I found out today that my employers' health insurance will cover an abortion for your dependent teenager if she gets pregnant, but won't cover prenatal care and delivery if she decides to have the child. This just seems weird to me - does anybody know about their employer policy, or would you be willing to look? I wonder if it's industry standard or my employer being butt-headed.
They're probably looking at it strictly in terms of cost but man, that's weird, all right.
As butt-headed as NOT paying for birth control at $25/ month and yet paying for a pregnancy/birth every single year if you want to have a kid that often.
msbelle, hope you feel better soon.
Last night I discovered that if I'm torturing Mister Kitty (he had a chin zit thing that popped and I was mopping up the blood and peroxiding, and he was objecting strenuously) Devi will kind of go nuts and attack me. Which is odd because she doesn't really like him. Maybe she just didn't want to be left out of the fight. Who knows. Luckily, little damage. But that was freaky.
They are finally putting railings back up on the vertigo-inducing apartment building. Of course, they are starting at the bottom, which helps me none.
I'm please to see that wee plastic barrets haven't changed that much since my toddlerhood. I had the birds in baby blue! Cute kids, too.
As butt-headed as NOT paying for birth control at $25/ month and yet paying for a pregnancy/birth every single year if you want to have a kid that often.
Or worse, if you don't want to have a kid that often, but can't afford prescription b.c., and like most adults, have Teh Sex.
It's when they cover Viagra but not contraception that it drives me the nuttiest.
my employers' health insurance will cover an abortion for your dependent teenager if she gets pregnant, but won't cover prenatal care and delivery if she decides to have the child. This just seems weird to me - does anybody know about their employer policy, or would you be willing to look? I wonder if it's industry standard or my employer being butt-headed.
From an employer/insurance co. point of view, pregnancy stuff is usually seen as "optional" coverage, sorta' like dental or eye exams. In fact, when I worked at a bakery cooperative, we had to choose between dental coverage and pregnancy coverage (it would have cost too much to give ourselves both).
But I have no idea how state laws affects this issue....
I am weirded out by the idea of cats getting zits. Or maybe just by sarameg's description. Could go either way.
I think it is pretty strange myself.
I am weirded out by the idea of cats getting zits. Or maybe just by sarameg's description. Could go either way.
Oz gets chin zits. It's pretty common in male cats. My sister's male cat had it, too. She even got a special shampoo for him to avoid it.
I should note that my employer owns several hospitals. Haven't found anything out yet about state regulations.
So far I've discovered that if I give birth after 35 weeks gestation when I'm out-of-network, I have no insurance coverage at all. I.e. I can't travel anywhere after 35 weeks. Which, I wasn't planning to, but, good to know.
In fact, when I worked at a bakery cooperative, we had to choose between dental coverage and pregnancy coverage (it would have cost too much to give ourselves both).
I'm guessing at a bakery, the dental won out?
I have to admit, I'm skeptical of the "covers Viagra but not BC" example. Does anyone have an example of a real case where this happened? (I only ask because I've never heard of it happening anywhere except as a pat example of hypocrisy during discussions like this, and it always struck me as a little too perfectly appropriate.)
