One of the weirdest and most telling parts of the American healthcare system is that my 5-day old infant already has $3,000+ of medical debt in her own name for being born and receiving care.
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On top of the $4,000+ my wife has. And that’s just the deductibles. The total for both is actually around $14,000 for just the standard birth with zero complications. Why do we punish birth?
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I’m no socialist. But there’s got to be a third solution besides “Give the State absolute power over health, life, and death” and “Charge infants $3k”.
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Seems like a sustainable system.
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Minimizing them being the key feature here.
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