• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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      Fuck. When i was born, i had to spend some time in an incubator. My mom fell in a coma and woke up 1 month later. We were in the hospital the whole time.

      Tons of exams for my mom …

      This would have ruined my parents, if i would have been born in the USA, which almost happened.

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      My co-worker paid $39,000 two years ago. It was ~$25,000 for us ~14 years ago.

      That’s without insurance, right?

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      And don’t forget the cost of caring for a kid is somewhere in the realm of $10k over the first year.

      P.S. Always request an itemized bill from hospitals. Magically the amount owed will go down.