Health Care Laws That Impeed Health Care Delivery For Your Family
For the past eighteen months my son has been recovering from a traumatic brain injury and throughout the plethora of doctor's visits and CT scans, I have regularly been prevented from obtaining appropriate health care for my son by the health insurer, Community Health Plan of Washington. Apparently Washington State has a law which treats anyone fourteen years or older as an adult when it comes to health care. I find this amazing, when they aren't allowed to drive without drivers training and a licensing test, until age sixteen and can't vote until eighteen, but at fourteen they can legally make adult health care decisions. Upon researching what regulation the health plan gatekeepers were referring I learned there are many laws in Washington concerning age-of-consent and health care emancipation. A minor is considered emancipated at age fourteen under RCW 70 24 330 and 70 24 0147 for HIV testing, under RCW 9 02 100 for abortion, and for obtainment of birth control services u...