This is true. My insurance deductible was $4,000 per person, $14k family. Hospital and clinicians each billed both mother and newborn to max out both deductibles. Then the car seat/crib/diapers/high chair/clothes/everything, plus missed work with FLMA but no pay.
We are barely above poverty for the first time in my life, but all this debt and $1,300 monthly payments to pay it back are definitely putting us back under. I can’t even afford to publish the books I’ve written this year so we can barely dig our way out.
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Then there’s an additional specialist for my daughter’s condition. Diapers. Food. Clothes as they grow. Diapers. New cups. Checkups. Diapers. Did I mention diapers?
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My taxes go to pay for health insurance for those in poverty who pay $0 for the birth and all medical care is 100% covered. So they can have as many as they wish and each kid nets them higher monthly payments from the county. I make just barely enough to be over the cutoff line.
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