Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

Family face a nine month battle with insurance giant Zurich which has now apologised.

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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lambipapp 36 points 8 months ago

The US: why is our birth rate so low? Also the US: ...

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quick_snail 8 points 8 months ago

The best way to lower birth rates is free contraception. The birth rate in the US is too high..

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Formfiller 7 points 8 months ago

Best we can do is get rid of medicade and charge you for murder if you abort or use plan b. Once you are in debtors prison Your baby will then be transferred into a Mossad run sex trafficking and jerky processing operation

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bridgeburner 5 points 8 months ago

Interestingly it is still higher than a lot of European countries which have affordable healthcare

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Swedneck 9 points 8 months ago

different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they're living in misery, whereas in europe we've long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.

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