Does America want Moms to stay at home?

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Registered: 03-02-2005
Does America want Moms to stay at home?
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Mon, 12-12-2005 - 11:28am
It was actually dh that suggested that America (gov't I suppose) wants Moms to stay at home. From what I have learned from these boards daycare is hideously expensive and maternity leave is very short. Many have said they couldn't afford to work because of daycare costs. Compare this to Canada where we have $7 a day daycare and Quebec is increasing maternity leave to 2 years at 55% pay or 1 year at 75% pay in January. With the $7 a day daycare Moms can easily afford to work, and with the paid maternity leave Moms can easily afford to stay home. It seems that in the states you're 'forced' into situations because it's your only option. Can't afford daycare? Stay at home. Maternity leave too short or have to work to support the family? Go back to work. Would any of you prefer if it would be easier financially to make either decision like it seems to be in Canada or are you fine with how it is?

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:42pm

I certainly do think my taxes should pay for your health care. A nation of millions with no health coverage is just one nasty epidemic away from a national disaster. Health is a community issue, we all pay for everyone one way or another.

And having gone through pregnancy, birth, typical kid stuff and two rounds of cancer in two different countries with universal health care I can assure you that it is possible to have a universal health care system that actually works pretty well.

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:43pm
You didn't answer the rest of my questions? Do you want your tax dollars paying for my weekly u/s? Or intrauterine inseminations? How about IVF? Or mom's gastric bypass surgery?
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:45pm
I've had my husband come home after 16 hr days of climbing trees, so much that his gaffs had dug holes in his skin. Fixing cars in the middle of nowhere in 30 degree weather and pouring rain. Don't tell me he doesn't work hard. :)
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Registered: 11-03-2005
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:45pm

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It most definitely does. That's what xh does for a living .. find that crap in the U.S. Army. He's an Internal Auditor and does program (as opposed to financial) audits. He's had multiple audits that resulted in over $10M in "findings". The Generals don't like to see him; they know he's coming in to say "Cut the fat."

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:46pm
My insurance covers the weekly u/s and the prescriptions I've taken (clomid, pergonal, hCG), despite claiming not to cover infertility. I don't know about inseminations b/c we're not there yet and will have a new co. by then (DH's co. is switching carriers). Mom's gastric bypass was also 100% covered.
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Registered: 08-27-2005
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:47pm
Yes, there are programs like these. I don't know the exact numbers, but as I said before a more reasonable comparison would be the whole of the E.U. There are a large number of national and E.U. grant agencies that support all kinds of research. The Swedish government has poured millions into developing stem cell research in Sweden, for example, including funding for start-ups.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:48pm
Those things don't seem way out of line to me. I assume there'd be some limits on elective care, however, just as there are limits as to what insurance pays for now. Or the current medical necessity checks on Medicare, that sort of thing.
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Registered: 02-11-2005
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:48pm
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:48pm
From what I've experienced, insurance covering either of those things is pretty rare. I wouldn't include it under "basic healthcare". Medicaid wouldn't cover it, for example. (Or, MediCal, here)
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Registered: 12-29-1999
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 4:54pm

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Well, you know, I'd take my DEAD grandparents back from Heaven if I could, but since I can't...I'll cherish their memory every time I pass by a piece of their furniture. I hardly call losing all of my grandparents w/in 5 years and inheriting furniture "luxurious." I'd take the furniture bills and live Grandparents any day of the week. Didn't work out that way. As Meldi said, "Thems the shakes."

SIGH. This is so turning into one of those snarky "my DH works harder than your DH" mommy olympics. I'm not playing. I've seen the 90 hr work weeks DH (youngest VP in the history of his office) puts in, I've got nothing to prove.

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