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Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A couple were told they faced a $200,000 (£146,500) medical bill when their baby was born prematurely in the US, despite them having travel insurance which covered her pregnancy.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Except tax payers now get to send their hard earned money directly to the leeches that work at insurance companies.

No matter if the system works out for individuals with insurance Americans get screwed with the way it is at the moment.

You all need to fight for universal health care so that shit isn't marked up 5000% so that insurances companies make billions for doing nothing but complicate everything

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

private insurance is heavily subsidized by OUR TAXES anyways, but is unvailable or extremely inaccessible to most people. propaganda has convinced the right more than the left that private insurance results in "faster time, appts and guaranteed care" but it does not appear to be in most cases, because insurance can easily nitpick dim/nickle everything of your care(multiple tests, each doctor appointment, what the doctor is doing, who is reading your results,,,,etc)