My son was an emergency cesarean, with six hours of respiratory treatment (cord pinched and caused a code blue situation) his total cost was $67,000 my insurance covered 98% due to me having a hospital stay two weeks before he was born.
Alternative headline: "American Health Care has made such amazing advances that they can perform miracles like saving the lives of this mother and her child"
...at the expensive of crippling them financially for life. Not that that's entirely the American hospital's fault, whole thing sounds like a fucking mess.
There was a point that you managed to Dodge with spectacular form back there.
The issue you're talking about is not something being debated. Nobody said it wasn't good the baby was saved, that America helped, that America doesn't have advanced equipment. It's doing a good job in that regard, and I see no reason to get defensive over something no one said.
The issue at hand is: a woman had a baby, in the wrong country, and now both countries are prepared to abandon her.
The insurance company *should* be stepping up. But if they don't have to, why would they? Similarly, the hospital (which happens to be American, but that's truly irrelevant. It could be fucking Martian, the story would be the same) is fully entitled to demand payment for every single service it did for this woman and her child. Either side could help, but if neither will, at the end of the day she and her child are going to suffer immensely
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· 5 years ago
The family sold their cattle ranch to pay the bill.
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· 5 years ago
Also, not having mothers and babies die in hospital is far from being an exclusively american thing
Order a whole damn wing of the hospital?
Thank you
Edit: http://www.fillmoreriley.com/newsletter-articles/article/296/travel-insurance-the-million-dollar-baby
Looks like her Canadian insurance wouldn't pay for her premature birth and 2-month stay at the hospital, because pregnancy is a pre-existing condition.
The issue you're talking about is not something being debated. Nobody said it wasn't good the baby was saved, that America helped, that America doesn't have advanced equipment. It's doing a good job in that regard, and I see no reason to get defensive over something no one said.
The issue at hand is: a woman had a baby, in the wrong country, and now both countries are prepared to abandon her.
The insurance company *should* be stepping up. But if they don't have to, why would they? Similarly, the hospital (which happens to be American, but that's truly irrelevant. It could be fucking Martian, the story would be the same) is fully entitled to demand payment for every single service it did for this woman and her child. Either side could help, but if neither will, at the end of the day she and her child are going to suffer immensely