Caffeine Jones here, on my soapbox again. Dingo 's been telling eveyone that I'm stealing a bowling ball, but the truth is I'm actually expecting (a baby). Pretty obvoius, though. Who ever heard of a 30lb bowling ball?
According to Oregon law, women in their 3rd trimster, who have been seeing an Oregon Health Plan - approved midwife, can apply for an "open card," which means that you don't have to go through the HMOs, but instead OHP will pay for your chosen Midwife.
The problem is, even though it is our right, the workers will tell you it can't be done, and deny you an open card.
This happened to me today, and I have spent the morning on the phone, tryng to find a way around it.
How can YOU help?
Call the Oregon Governor's Hotline, and tell them that DHS workers need to give pregnant women open cards for "continuity of care," according to ORS rule 410-141-060-IA.
Midwife births are thousands of dollars cheaper than hospital births, and so it is in the State's best interest to inform their DHS workers that expectant mothers have this right!
We had our other kid in a basment apartment in Eugene. Midwives are the way to go: no drugs, fewer problems, higher success rate, better bedside manner, easier on the vagina. It did perturb Dingo that the midwife was for me and not (to him) what he thought the title suggested: a wife to go in the middle. I think he'll be ok, this time, though. Now he knows he'll have to clean his own bellybutton.
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holy crap! you got OHP to pay for anything?! and you are complaining?
well, that surprise aside, yeah, i doesnt surprise me they wont pay for that. i suspect, with budget cuts and all, the barely-alive ohp is probably more and more in the pocket of "western" (e.g. commercial) medicine, like hospitals and such. taking bribes from pharmacutical companies and what not.
the thing that really sucks is, unlike hospitals, just getting it done and not paying hurts a nice midwife, so that aint cool. everyone loses.
some day ask me about our birth experience... the short version is we got really lucky. thankfully. awesome.
btw, have you heard about how washington state is trying to harrass midwives who deliver (non-cesarian) breech births? ah, "modern medicine".
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