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We held your baby for $38.99/0.8 seconds, but of course we’ll have to keep in mind the $49.75 administrative processing fee, the $78.50 baby-holding math-calculation fee, $400 ($430.25) cleaning fee for the physical exertion of holding the baby (+$16/oz of baby, swaddling clothes included), $1600 (8 (9) easy payments of $399 ($428.80)) physical therapy for all the baby holders involved (technically one nurse but technically over 3 nurses and 2 doctors made eye contact with the baby and emotional labor is equivalent–sorry, that’s just industry standards, damn unions am I right?), $99 ($152.80 (3 easy payments of $89.99 + 0% (22%) APR)) “fuck you in the mouth because we can” fee, did you want your receipt printed or emailed? Well, we took the liberty of printing it already, now hospital paper has to be absolutely Level 36 Jumbo Mumbionically sanitized to prevent Epic Baby Death Syndrome, and let me tell you, valued customer, it ain’t cheap,
My favourite part of the holding your baby fee story is that whenever the photo makes the rounds on reddit or wherever, people try to explain the situation, i.e. relay the explanation the PR department of the hospital issued. The “explanation” is that the regular procedure is to take the baby away immediately for medical reasons I don’t remember. Either the hospital is lying and this was a bullshit charge people with a newborn couldn’t object to, or they really have an inhuman procedure that charges a new mother for one of the most human things she can do. I don’t even know which would be worse.
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And then a liberal one so they can tell us it is selfish to want kids. But of course both just mean “don’t be poor, peasant”.
I don’t think I ever heard the justification, but I certainly don’t understand that. They said that they normally take the baby away for medical reasons, or that this particular baby needed to be taken away for medical reasons? And if it’s for medical reasons, why are they willing to override their medical reasons for $40?
I mean, I’m sure there’s a host of checking they do on a newborn (I’m not the child-having type and I’m not that kind of doctor, so it’s never come up). What I’m saying is that it’s obviously not a medical emergency, or paying $40 to hold your baby wouldn’t be an option. So it’s probably because the hospital charges the fee because the staff member waits to start the process, right? But that’s exactly what’s absolutely ludicrous. You’re already paying how many tens of thousands of dollars for the delivery, why tack on just that little bit? It’s not even a fraction of a percent, not to mention not letting the baby be held is inhumane to both the mother and the child. It’s like a fine dining restaurant charging you $5 if you ask the waiter for a few more minutes to look at the menu.
Please tell me I’m missing something.
Bold of you to assume they would give you the itemized bill in real life
What the fuck, this is so inhumane, especially when it comes to the well being of newborn babies…
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Jk! Actual baby-holding fee is only $39.35. Don’t you feel better now? 🙂
In Gaddafi’s Libya, they paid women who had children.
They do that in a lot of neolib countries currently too. In Ireland it’s known as “Mickey money”. Do they not have this in the US?
We have something known as “WIC” (Women, Infants and Children) that you gotta apply for and it barely covers shit. You gotta be making less than poverty wages as well.
In my cashier job, you would not believe how often I’ve had to refuse the sale on shit like baby formula and juice because WIC seemingly randomly decided to stop covering it. This week, they might cover juice concentrate. Next week, they may only cover juice and not concentrate. Who knows!
Burgerland pays more per person for medical treatments than anywhere in the world and gets significantly less out of it than competing countries. That’s how terrible the insurance middleman racket is.
Around 18% of the 2022 US GDP was healthcare expenditures. In comparison, around 6-7% of the 2022 PRC GDP was healthcare expenditures—despite having a population of more than 4x that of the US.
Yanks still insist their healthcare is “best in the world”. I wonder what they do to them as infants to create such a veiled outlook
Insurance here is also about 30% of our paycheck.
Right now I’m unemployed, we are on ACA, the affordable care act benefits. For people outside of this shitty country, that Obamacare. Our toddler is sick. We are trying to get our kids on CHIP, which is actually affordable benefits for our kids. Just found out that when my wife took our toddler in for possible pneumonia or liquid in his lungs, that since he isn’t currently covered, if we pay for this visit out of pocket, we could be denied CHIP.
So like what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Fast update but found out that he does have pneumonia. So like treat him out of pocket and not get benefits, or what, let him possibly die from untreated pneumonia?
I would make a whole post in Comradeship or somewhere for this, so more people see it
I might. I feel like I need to do a full unload post to just get shit off my chest.
I might wait for an update on if we are gonna be allowed to get chip.
I can’t help but lose it every time he gets sick though. He has basically been sick for 9 months straight with 104 fevers and a bunch of tests that always come back with nothing. It sucked before but we at least had some form of health care but now we are on the glorious ACA and I just… I don’t really get it.
But like every time this happens I just go back to this mood of pure hatred towards our healthcare system. I can’t help but feel like every one of my family that are against universal care would just be fine if my baby died from his 10th fucking bout with pneumonia because this time he isn’t covered. I will never understand how people who call themselves Christians would be ok with poor people suffering because they couldn’t afford our outrageous health care prices. It will never make sense that we could pay 8% for example to cover everyone but people would rather go the selfish route and pay like 30% for their employer picked healthcare.
It is absolutely disgusting, I can’t imagine how breathtakingly terrible this must be for you.
Definitely make a post because there are many knowledgeable comrades here who might offer advice, I myself know nothing on this.
That is GDP!
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At least we’ll finally get some fucking health care and the oligarchs will get guillotined
You and I both know that is not going to happen. Perhaps, by the end of the century there might be some progress.
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To be honest, I wouldn’t mind if the US gets nuked. At least, we’ll be free from the pain of neoliberalism.
