Hey y’all I’m a HS junior and I’m looking to hear some of your stories if any of y’all have faced medical racism and healthcare discrimination. If anyone is interested please pm me and I would like to have a phone interview in the next week or so. Afterwards if you’re comfortable I would like to publish an essay about your story and share it with anyone willing to listen. Also I especially want to hear stories for/ about black women because that’s my focus as being a black girl myself, but if you aren’t black and would like to share your story I would still love to hear it and publish it. Thanks
Her freelance job makes it so that she makes a very small amount of income each year, like less than $3000, and I pay for most of our expenses. Recently her application for Medicaid was rejected due to her identity being unable to be verified. They claimed that she was missing documents even though she sent them everything they asked for - ID, address verification, social security number, etc...
We live together unmarried and I get health insurance through my job so I'm not sure what I can do to help. (Also, does my income have an effect on her eligibility if we're not married?) I find it very confusing looking at the sites of all the different health insurance companies and they all seem to have exceptions to their eligibility. I was hoping that someone who is self-employed could help guide us in the right direction.