Insurance
I have a question regarding health insurance. We are currently expecting our first child, and both my husband and I would like nothing more than for me to be able to be a SAHM. However, my husband is self-employed. He is currently under my health insurance. I have looked into private insurances. They are kind of costly, but we could manage. However, I am having a hard time finding plans that have maternity coverage ( when we would have another child.) Some have an optional benefit of maternity coverage, but it looks like they only cover a very minimal amount ( ~$2000.00). I was wondering if anyone else has gone through a similar situation, or has any advice? I would love to be a SAHM, but realistically, if we were to have another child in a couple years, we could not afford to pay for it all out of our pockets.
Re: Insurance
My husband is also self employeed and was the only employee (of his s-corp). In order for us to qualify for a policy, we had to add me to the payroll (as a book keeper) and so now technically we have 2 employees and qualify for "small group" (2-51 employees) insurance through BCBS. Granted every state is different and here in NJ we are paying $936/mo for no deductable health ins + dental. When we have a child he/she will go under one of our policys so that one of us is still a "single" policy and the other will be a "parent/child" policy.
As for the payroll, we write out weekly paychecks to me and I deposit them right into our joint account so that the money goes back to him. Its a small way to get around the self employeed, one employee problem
J+E ~ 08/25/2007 DD#1 ~ 05/11/2010 DD#2 ~ 09/25/2013 DD#3 ~ 06/09/2016 Baby #4 Due ~ 01/16/2023
My husband and I are both self employed and it is very difficult for us to get help with any health insurance luckily I have a great maternity coverage right but the cost is sky high I have called other insurances and the agents told me to stick with what I have. I did get our health insurance through ehealthinsurance.com. Check out what they have to offer. To us it is like a 2nd mortgage payment and I hope that something will be done to help us citizens. We did not qualify for Chip (which is in my state) to help with our cost. I am working 2 jobs and I am hoping that I can find a little bit more hours with my other job to help get coverage for health insurance. Good luck!!!