Support Insurance Coverage for Home Birth
Julie Finefrock is six months pregnant and medically eligible for a home-birth, which she has chosen for herself and her baby, but for which she has been denied coverage by the Service Employees Inter... continue reading »
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"1199 SEIU's medical director approved my homebirth even though I ended up using Oxford. This SEIU should cover it as well."
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"Every woman should have the right to choose where she wants to give birth and the insurance companies should support their decision."
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"Whatever happened to living in a country where we say we support Freedom of Choice? I guess that we don't really walk our talk."
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"Women have a right to give birth wherever they feel safe and this often includes homebirth; an option that is as safe, if not safer, than in-hospital. If a woman covered by SEIU wants to give birth in her most natural surroundings - at home - she should b"
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"It's amazing to me that you would have paid for this woman's elective induction, forceps delivery, NICU for complications of preterm birth or an elective induction. However, when this woman chooses a safe and less expensive birth, you deny payment. Where "
"Research evidence has shown that homebirth is as safe if not safer for a low risk woman. Please provide coverage."
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"Evidence consistently shows that planned homebirth with a midwife is as safe or SAFER than hospital birth, and the cost savings to insurance companies can be astronomical~ it is asinine to deny coverage..."
