Is there public assistance in North Carolina?

North Carolina Pregnancy Assistance?

• I want to have a baby but my husband and I don't have insurance offered at our jobs. We live in North Carolina and can't afford insurance online. Can anyone give me a website or information on North Carolina Medicair Assistance? Or should we just wait a few years until one of us has Health Insurance? Note: I am young (27) but my mother and 16 of my aunts started menopause at the age of 30 to 32. So my biological clock might be ticking.

• Answer:

  Here are some websites with the information & links you need: http://www.nchealthystart.org/public/childhealth/index.htm (General site about NC Child Health Insurance) http://info.dhhs.state.nc.us/olm/forms/dma/dma-5063-ia.pdf (Printable application) http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dma/ (NC Medicaid homepage) http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dma/babylove.html (NC Medicaid's "Babylove" maternity page) Just for the record... I had my son on Medi-Cal (CA's verision of Medicaid). We didn't have to pay a penny for any portion of my prenatal care or his birth. This time, we have health insurance. We're paying $150/month for a prescription I need (which I also used last time), 20% of each doctor visit, and will be paying a significant amount of money for the hospital stay. From a purely financial aspect? I'd do it now. Yes, there was some obvious discrimination from certain medical personnel and the pharmacy, but it was pretty easy to deal with, and not as likely as this to lead us to bankruptcy. Also, the older you get, the harder it is on your body.