I’m Canadian. And I’m already sorry for asking an ignorant question.
I know you have to pay for hospital visits in the states. I know lower economic status can come with lower access to birth control and sex education. But then, how do they afford to give birth? Do people ever avoid hospital visits because they don’t feel like they can’t afford it?
Do hospitals put people on a payment plan? Is it possible to give birth and not pay if you don’t have the means? How does it work in the states?
How does it all work?
Again. Canadian. And sorry.
Bathtub. Car. Alleyway. Crippling debt that, while shouldn’t be impactful on credit score, will still follow you for your lifetime.
Debt. Massive amounts of debt.
They send the infant to debtors prison to begin working off the $70,000 hospital bill. They don’t have to pay the infant minimum wage though, and they charge them for room and board and meals, so by the time they’re 18 they are actually indebted to the hospital an average of 1.4 million dollars, which they will then begin working off as adults earning minimum wage.
I man you joke, but don’t give them any ideas.
Arkansas has upvoted your comment and taken notes.
Ohio awaits program completion and results to “improve” on it.
I know you’re joking, but Im pretty sure that there was a supreme court case that made debtors prison a thing of the past.
deleted by creator
Found it, it was 1983, much more recent than I remembered. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdal/page/file/918356/download
The feds themselves call it a civil rights violation, they have a good chance at a lawsuit. IMO, the judges who sign the arrest warrants need to be debarred or taken out of office or whatever happens to judges.
My first kid was born at 27 weeks, and would have ended up costing us 3mill if they weren’t on Medicaid due to being born so early. My second kid we were living in Canada (due to my job) and basically only cost us to park at the hospital.
Growing up in the US and living in Canada for a while, I genuinely don’t understand why Universal Healthcare isn’t fought for more. I know it’s talked about but holy fuck, it’s so much better in Canada.
To comment on OP’s actual question, I have no idea how people do it.
And some fucks in Alberta want the US system because “I never get sick! My taxes are paying for someone else to be sick!”
deleted by creator
why is no one else mentioning home birth??
Honestly, in Arizona surprisingly, the state paid for it because we were poor and eligible for their healthcare programs. I know its bad everywhere here, but we got lucky.
Bankruptcy.
Vaginally
deleted by creator
I left one job and went to another. There was a 3 month gap where I had no health insurance, didn’t qualify right away at the new job. Got an infection that required a two week round of antibiotics.
The cost without insurance was a little over $2000. My COBRA coverage was $600+ and a couple dollars with insurance for the anti biotics. I felt lucky to only have to spend the $600+ to enact COBRA coverage and that it happened in the first month so I could only pay once and drop it.
Is that where you send a big snake into the medical billing goons’ office to distract and/or eat them?
deleted by creator
Same with any hospital visit here afaik. Most hospitals have a loophole if you can’t pay, you can dispute the fees, they check your income, etc… like others have said I think it affects your credit score either way. But it’s all part of the privatized healthcare grift.
Was poor, had a baby at 20. $6,000 hospital bill we paid in monthly installments of like $100
Paid off my kid being born when she was like 6 or 7 lol. Kind of like a car
dunno, my sister hired a midwife to handle the birth. i heard it was cheaper than a hospital visit but I have no idea of the actual cost.
deleted by creator
You generally don’t pay for hospital visits 95+% of people have some form of insurance that would cover the vast majority of the cost for going to hospitals for giving birth.
95% of people have insurance? Does not caring about medical debt you’ll never pay count as insurance now, because thats the only way that number makes sense. Unless i missed your point, which im known to do.
Sorry it was 91.4%
The question asked was what the other 8.6% do. That’s a big number btw. You talk like it’s not a significant number but it absolutely is.
I don’t think that was the question. I interpreted it as them saying they thought it was higher than that.
Go back and read the original post. Not the discussion in this comment thread, but the question you answered originally. OP asked what do poor people that can’t afford healthcare do. You answered that most people can afford it which is a mobster way of answering the question.
No the question was about poor people without money, not people without insurance.
