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Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US (www.bbc.co.uk)

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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

How's the US still a country, how do people just put up with it.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 minutes ago

Bread and circuses still works.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Around 50 years of near constant propaganda from our media convincing people that the government paying for anything is destructive to the economy and that taxing rich people more that poor people is not fair.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

Military Industrial Complex