The baby is due in February

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I went out to dinner. We have been eating there regularly for almost 30 years. One of the waitresses knows we are big D's. She came over to talk, even though we weren't at her table. She was very excited to share. The baby is due in Feb. Congratulations was expressed. She mentioned her husband is a diabetic.

Then her BIG news. The family will have health insurance they can afford starting the first of the year! Need I say more?

OS

[joeybee12]

1. Good luck to them...knr

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Cold water, I hope she is still seeing a doctor

or that will be a high risk pregnancy regardless.

[kestrel91316]

5. Why would it be high risk? The husband's diabetes has no impact.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It has none to do with the husband

a woman with no pre-natal care is by definition considered high risk.

Women in the United States who do not receive prenatal care have an increased risk of experiencing a neonatal death, especially if they deliver at or after 36 weeks' gestation, according to findings from a large population-based cohort study.1 Lack of prenatal care is associated with a 40% increase in the risk of neonatal death overall and a doubling of the risk among women delivering at or after 36 weeks' gestation. Black women are more than three times as likely as white women not to receive prenatal care, and regardless of their prenatal care status, their infants are significantly more likely to die within their first 27 days of life than are infants born to white women.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3427002.html

For example, the literature is extensive.

[Beaverhausen]

10. It sounds like she has no insurance. But that doesn't mean she isn't getting healthcare

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Which is what I hope

[Omaha Steve]

12. Mom has been getting check ups

At a clinic i think.

There is another post on DU right now about how diabetics have been treated by insurance companies. No more previous condition crap for this family either.

[lamp_shade]

3. I just got all verklempt over this. Thank you for sharing this delightful story.

[Boomerproud]

4. Best wishes to mother and baby.

I'm sending light for a healthy pregnancy and birth.

[MsPithy]

7. Woo! Hoo!

I bet the news media is beating down their door, anxious to tell one of the good news stories about Obamacare!

HA!

[rurallib]

8. please let us know if you can how it all comes out

so happy to hear she will have insurance

Here's to Obama! For he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny.

[Omaha Steve]

14. I will

We eat there a couple times a month. We already knew she was expecting. But the diabetes and how insurance treated him in the past for it was a bit of a surprise. The Obamacare sign up success was a welcome surprise.

[DeSwiss]

9. Are we going to have.....

...a generation of children who will eventually be referred to as Obama Boom Babies because their parents were able to get maternity insurance? Spawning more little Democrats!?!?!?

- Tea Baggers will have a coronary!!! ObamaCare: The gift that keeps on giving -- Democrats!!!!

K&R

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. yay