This is a big issue for many of us. It can easily take more than 10 years before one can become a US Citizen. Then after that if you sponsor your parents for Green Card how to get them a resonable health insurance is a big puzzle.
Recently Obama passed a health care bill ,which will hopefully become applicable sometime in 2014. This bill is supposed to take care of people like my parents with pre-existing conditions, who can get some reasonable insurance coverage after a certain premium.
There are lot of queries regarding how to proceed from here after my parents have become a green card holder:
1) How can I make sure that they can successfully become US Citizens after 5 years. They have to travel to their home country every year for atleast 5 months to take care of bills and also get their complete medical check-up and treatment done.
For citizenship purposes what paperwork should I be collecting for them from here on.. they currently to not have any bills in their name, no tax returns, no work history etc..
2) The more worrysome question is what are my options for getting them a resonable health insurance. Both my parents are over 65 with pre-existing conditions of diabetes and BP. For the next 5 years they will be coming to US for a period of 7 months every year and staying with me.
I know they will not be eligible for medicare or social security unless they work.. but are there any other options for health insurance where by they can be regulary get checked and treated for diabetes and BP.
One last questions - Once they become citizens after 5 years will they be eligible for medicaid? My parents are not in a condition that they can work.. How can they become eligible for medicaid.
Please suggest how should I approach this considering all the constraints -- so that parents can get their citizenship after 5 years without any issues and so that atleast they can become eligible for medicaid after they become citizen?
Recently Obama passed a health care bill ,which will hopefully become applicable sometime in 2014. This bill is supposed to take care of people like my parents with pre-existing conditions, who can get some reasonable insurance coverage after a certain premium.
There are lot of queries regarding how to proceed from here after my parents have become a green card holder:
1) How can I make sure that they can successfully become US Citizens after 5 years. They have to travel to their home country every year for atleast 5 months to take care of bills and also get their complete medical check-up and treatment done.
For citizenship purposes what paperwork should I be collecting for them from here on.. they currently to not have any bills in their name, no tax returns, no work history etc..
2) The more worrysome question is what are my options for getting them a resonable health insurance. Both my parents are over 65 with pre-existing conditions of diabetes and BP. For the next 5 years they will be coming to US for a period of 7 months every year and staying with me.
I know they will not be eligible for medicare or social security unless they work.. but are there any other options for health insurance where by they can be regulary get checked and treated for diabetes and BP.
One last questions - Once they become citizens after 5 years will they be eligible for medicaid? My parents are not in a condition that they can work.. How can they become eligible for medicaid.
Please suggest how should I approach this considering all the constraints -- so that parents can get their citizenship after 5 years without any issues and so that atleast they can become eligible for medicaid after they become citizen?