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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a thought - who carries the health insurance?  Might be easiest to use that as the kid's last name (and use the other spouse's as the middle name).[/quote]

NP here. Medicaid is the insurance. Kids keep medicaid even after adopted.  [/quote]

Decent parents put them on their private and keep the medicaid.[/quote]

Why would I put her on my insurance? Medicaid is awesome! Seriously. Decent parents? You're an ass.    [/quote]

Because you re her parents and should provide equal to what you would if she were your biological child.  I cannot imagine not having our child on our insurance.[/quote]

NP here,

My kid's medical situation wasn't the same as it would have been if he was my biological child.  His medical situation was directly related to things that happened to him before he came to us.  Accepting help from Medicaid to deal with those issues made sense.

In my case, my kid is on my insurance too, only because my work automatically covered him at 100%.  There were times when having him on a double insurance policy was a pain in the neck, or a significant expense.  For example, our private medical insurance didn't cover a lot of DME (wheelchairs, feeding pumps, other equipment), but since they were "primary" we had to go through an approval process every time to get proof that we were rejected before Medicaid would cover.  In addition, our private insurance only covered one supplier for consumable medical supplies (things like feeding tube bags), and that supplier was terribly unreliable.  My friends who just had Medicaid had a much better experience.

Finally, there are sometimes expenses associated with foster child adoption that aren't always there otherwise.  I know I missed an enormous amount of work due to medical appointments.  This leave was unpaid because I had used up all my paid leave on maternity leave.  So, if I could have made up some of that expense by dropping duplicate insurance, I would have. [/quote]

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