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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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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Part of why medical bills in the US are so high is because if you don't pay them, they sell the debt to collections at pennies on the dollar.

Which means that the people who do pay the high prices are paying for those who don't or can't or won't.

Stop paying.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Time to head home and never look back 😅

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This is the Greatest Country In The World, sunny Jim, and you better thank Republican Jesus for our for-profit system! Otherwise you might be forced into free socialist health care, where you have to get vaccines and stuff for nothing, and only a godless communist wants that. /s

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sounds fake but its real. If they got a car and ran a baby over they'd have paid 1% of this. Our system is so deeply fucked up.

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