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God, I’m so glad I live in Australia. I suffered an A.V. malformation in my brain that burst one day. I was flown to a major hospital in the city (about 5 hrs away from where I live by car) for emergency neurosurgery. I woke up 2 weeks later with a bunch of tubes coming out of me and no idea where I was or how I got there. After they took the tubes out of me about a month later and got me out of the hospital bed, I found out I had to learn to walk again. I was released for out-patient care about a month and a half after that, the whole thing cost me exactly $0.
America really screwed it’s own people, huh?
It screwed its meat. Those it considers people are fine.
Because you live in a developing nation? Why else?
American here, kids are 11 and 13. I have no memory of paying anything for our doctors, testing, delivery, anything at all. I had health insurance for myself, and my wife was unemployed for at least one of those births.
Posts like this really fuck with my head. We were living in a trailer on one income and somehow it was all free? Had to have been, I’d remember the budget hit back then. We didn’t get any sort of welfare, not even food stamps. But we must have?
Also, their infant to toddler years were basically free. Clothes, toys, furniture, whatever, all $0. My ex might spend $10 on FB Marketplace and score a monster garbage sack of basically new clothes. Only real expense I remember was diapers. No getting away from that!
There are dozens of FB groups, even in this little metro, giving baby stuff away. You buy it, use it a few months or a year, pass it on. Want a car seat? There is at least one at someone’s curb here in the hood, right now tonight.
My wife breast fed our first, couldn’t go as long for second born. First go round she bagged and donated milk. Second go round, we got that milk back. We did spend a little on formula, but much was donated.
Just don’t understand why people act like babies are so expensive.
The author of the article earns more than 4x the federal poverty wage, so they aren’t eligible for subsidized health care like most Americans. They also consider a $200/month cellphone bill to be necessary for their childs birth (?). The comments on the article also point out more potential issues with the authors math.
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No one forces you to remain in the US. You can go to Mexico or Canada easily. Both places where you don’t need to pay 40k for a birth
Not everyone has the resources or ability to just pack up and move to another country. First off, you need to get permission from the country in question to live there and both of America’s neighbors aren’t very fond of you guys right now. Second, you need a way to support yourself while living there. that could mean getting new qualifications and training that is recognized in that country which can take a while. Third, It means isolating yourself from your family, friends and support network and you have to try rebuilding all of that from scratch. Saying “Just move to another country, Bro!” is kind of insulting to those who don’t have the means to do that.
People know what makes babies. Now a kid you can’t afford due to a dyatopian world is doomed to 80 years in the dystopian world. How is this just okay with everyone?
Why do you need your child when you can adopt?
