Do adopted children get free health care?

jm1970

Children adopted through foster care (special needs adoption) get medicaid until they are 18...adoptive parents have the option to put them on their own health care and most do, using medicaid as the secondary insurance.

Lillie

Well I am adopted and I sure as hell don't get free health care.

Margot Tenenbaum

Hahahahahha! That would be a No.

Heather B

Darn, you mean I could've gotten fee healthcare all these years - I wonder if them premiums can be reimbursed, hmmmm

Bo Peep

I can only answer concerning London UK. Here all children get free health care on the NHS, but foster care children are given extra help, so their holidays are paid for, christmas presents, clothing etc....adopted children are treated exactly as biological children and parents have to support them. IF however the child has some sort of special needs that would involve costs outside of the ordinary, then there might be a special arrangement that could be set up prior to the adoption being finalised, which could mean that social services will help with costs.

rgs3girls

It depends on how you adopted your child. We have adopted a daughter who was in the custody of DCFS (we live in IL)
She is entitled to free health care through medicaid until she is 19 or 21 if she is in college. Check with your state's dept of childrens services. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO PRIVATE ADOPTION>

Sophie

No, they don't.

Sandy Sandals

Legally adopted children do not get free health care, but they can be added to their parents' plan with no pre-existing condition clause and no waiting period, just as if a mother had given birth.

BraxOwl

Children adopted privately or internationally do not, but domestic adoptions through the foster care system, for instance, sometimes offer health care subsidies to adoptive families as an "incentive" to adopt. This is because there are so many children with special needs that the only reason they are not adopted is the expense of non-routine health care for the child. It is not available to all children, though.

trail b

i adopted my child from a foster care agency and yes her health insurance is provided free through the state. if its a personal adoption, then no you will have to provide the insurance.

Zuko

Nope. Once I was adopted I was only covered under my parents' heath insurance.

Beth

No.

Wayne S

It depends on the route you take to adopt the child.

If you are going through the state (children in foster care) they will probably already be on medicaid which will stay with them until they are 18. I have adopted the Texas DPS.

I can't really say for sure about using a private agency but I would rather doubt it unless the child has some sort of disability.

Jennifer L

Foster care childen do, I believe. I'm not sure about children adopted from foster care.

For domestic infant and international adoptions, no. The family has to add them onto their health insurance. But insurance companies are required to cover them without denying benefits for "pre-existing conditions."

Becca

I imagine some foster adopted children do. We adopted internationally and added our daughter onto our medical insurance just the same as if she had been born to us, so the answer is no.

not really. Weather it is Medicaid or Chips, someone pays. Some help is available for children in foster care and those in familes with no health insurance but it is not enough

scorpio_queen_2003

Once a child is adopted they are legally their parent's responsibility.so there is no reason why they should get free health care.

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