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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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[–] trongod_requiem0432@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just out of interest: Would U.S.-Americans be allowed to found a non-profit health insurance organization?

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

Oh wow and people wonder why people aren't having kids...

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you paid protection money to another gangster but then they didn't protect you what would likely happen?

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[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Sylvester explained: "Essentially what they said is that we would have been covered had the baby not survived. But the fact was that the baby survived."

"We weren't going to be covered for that, because we didn't put his name on the insurance policy."

JFC

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