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#2Yeah, so what? I think we have often enough discussed that the US healthcare system is broken.
People should never have to worry whether they can financially manage to go and see a doctor when they are in need of one. Doesn't care if you've broken your arm, am expecting a child or if you're chronically ill.
I don't know what else to say about this. Get that shit together and become a first world country.
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#3as people already know by now, the US medical system is subsidising the rest of world, along with medical innovation (new drugs etc):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7xmkzVU29Q
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#4That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
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#5Curious why this particular tweet was submitted. That is probably the lowest bill I have ever seen for childbirth. My first son’s C-section birth was $25k.
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#6That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
I have insurance and it cost me close to $3k for my last kid. In the US
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#7That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
Incorrect, that's how much it typically costs to give birth in a private hospital BEFORE any private insurance is applied.
If you go through the public hospital system (aka universal healthcare) the cost is negligible. Around 70% of people choose the public option.
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#8Note: that’s not what she owes, that’s just the ‘cost’. Interestingly she cropped that part out of the bill.
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#9That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
That doesn't match my experience. We have private insurance while on 457 and the only out of pocket expenses were the genetic extra test for autism and sex of the child and me staying couple nights in the hospital with my wife. About 750 in total. Everything else, pregnancy handling, hospital, midwives, cesarean, anesthetics were covered by the insurance company totaling around 20 000 AUD.
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#10Curious why this particular tweet was submitted. That is probably the lowest bill I have ever seen for childbirth. My first son’s C-section birth was $25k.
Did you have to pay it yourself?