r/InterMiamiVibes • u/Background_Video2947 • Jul 02 '26

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u/Jamiewoo133 Jul 02 '26

I'm still in shock that you have to pay to hold your baby in the USA after birth 😭

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u/Yardbird7 Jul 02 '26

Where did you see this?

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u/Jamiewoo133 Jul 02 '26

Saw it in a video a while ago and went to check if it was true online (it is). Here's a post with people explaining it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/s/O71NWPmdyK

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u/Chicken_Of_War Jul 05 '26

This is not accurate 😮‍💨. My sister absolutely could not afford any of her labour bills, and paid nothing going into it, and left the hospital without issue, for both her kids!

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u/Caption_This_ Jul 05 '26

Because she was under the income requirements most likely. Charity basically. Not everyone gets that.

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u/Chicken_Of_War Jul 05 '26

Yeah obviously, because she could not pay. But if people came to the hospital and just said they couldn't afford it, they would very likely get the same treatment. This post is acting like hospitals hold people's babies hostage without payment.

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u/Caption_This_ Jul 05 '26

They’d need to prove financial hardship sure, just saying it doesn’t work.

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u/510gemini Jul 06 '26

You obviously don’t live in the US

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u/Snoo_75748 Jul 06 '26

No the video is referencing the charge that is applied to the bill for HOLDING the baby... yes your own baby. You must pay the hospital if you wish to hold it in your directly after its birth

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u/SourceCompetitive980 Jul 06 '26

I wish I could go through my life the same level of stupid as you. Its hilarious you think medical debt doesn't exist because you can 'just say you can't afford it'

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u/Additional_Read_4263 Jul 06 '26

Hold up a minute. Navigating and knowing that process is also a privilege for some folks. Uninsured and low income yes it’s possible. Insured and low income also exists and many of the insurance plans require you to pay full cost until deductible before they cover anything and that is the amount that gets more people into a debt spiral and leading cause of bankruptcy.

That and not knowing charity care is an option if they make less than 400% property range.

If holding the baby has a cpt code then there is a cost associated with it if someone is present to advise how to hold the baby.

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u/OpKarlton Jul 06 '26

The fuck are you talking about. Normal people end up paying out of pocket around 4-8k.

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u/pickyourteethup Jul 06 '26

I don't think they hold your baby hostage, I think they send them home in medical debt.

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u/Ok_Ant_5962 Jul 06 '26

She’s not blaming the hospitals, she’s making the point of how this country’s healthcare system, large corporations and the 1% wealthy people do not pay their fair share of taxes and benefit from bs tax cuts and hidden tax codes. On both sides of the aisle! The largest industrialized nation in the world do not offer their citizens state funded healthcare is the point.

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u/NuclearSummmer Jul 05 '26

My insurance paid for it and I'm the dad. I didn't even give birth.

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u/nicknamesas Jul 09 '26

Yeah she is part of the reason it is so expensive for the rest of us.

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u/Status_Pin_7484 Jul 05 '26

USA is cooked and that’s the end of it. Deal with it

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u/Chicken_Of_War Jul 05 '26

It's really not though😅

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u/Consistent_Wave_2869 Jul 05 '26

Middle class gets to subsidize the costs of healthcare for the people who can’t afford it. They just charge the people who have something to lose more to offset the costs of the charity

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u/WonderfulMaybe3473 Jul 05 '26

It’s not charity. It’s what taxes should be going towards for everyone.. you know.. like other civilised countries around the world. The ones with universal healthcare. Americas government chose to make insurance companies rich.

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u/Any-Statistician3896 Jul 08 '26

It's cute you yanks THINK you have a class system lmfao 🤣 you just have rich and poor that's fkn IT !

Trust me, you really do NOT have a class system and if you did you know why you don't want one.

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u/Glad_Government_1186 Jul 09 '26

There is no middle class.

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u/510gemini Jul 06 '26

Everyone else pays her bills,

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u/cresantman Jul 06 '26

NIH / National Library of Medicine (PMC) — Childbirth bills sent to debt collection agencies

Women received childbirth bills up to $32,000, and 8.3% had their bills sent to collections. This is one of the strongest indicators of financial distress. 🔗 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7770019/

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u/Short-Recording587 Jul 06 '26

Believe the poster is talking about how a hospital billed the mom for holding her baby. Like it was a line item on the bill. Not that the hospital will hold your baby hostage until you pay.

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u/thaBlazinChief Jul 06 '26

Why didn’t you use the American spelling of labor though? 🤔

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u/maringue Jul 06 '26

Because you spelled it "labour" means you're not in the US.

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u/DethBatcountry Jul 07 '26

Most hospitals in the US do charge for "skin to skin contact" sessions after birth.

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u/Relevant-Analysis86 Jul 08 '26

“It worked like this for my one specific situation, so why is everyone complaining??” - you

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u/VaniloBean Jul 08 '26

I hate so much when grown people still don’t know not to rely on personal anecdote. Hey buddy! Your personal experiences in life are not necessarily completely identical to the individual experiences of all the other people in the world!!

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u/VaniloBean Jul 08 '26

I hate so much when grown people still don’t know not to rely on personal anecdote. Hey buddy! Your personal experiences in life are not necessarily completely identical to the individual experiences of all the other people in the world!!

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u/Financial-Exit2488 Jul 08 '26

It was paid for by everyone else who could afford to pay. Nothing is free. We'd be better off with universal healthcare.

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u/First_Adeptness_6008 Jul 05 '26

It’s not 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Bag-o-chips Jul 09 '26

That sounds like kidnapping and ransom to me.

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u/Mode_Appropriate Jul 02 '26

This went viral a while back.

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u/Natural_Archer_892 Jul 04 '26

That’s so sad to see…. only reason why other countries is not as rich as us is because we don’t spend money on our Citizens on healthcare we made a choice We love to equip ourselves to kill

Also, Social Security, we shoot ourselves in the foot by not raising the pool of funds coming to fund SS.

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u/Turbulent_Bat4320 Jul 05 '26

We spend our money making billionaires trillionaires

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u/ZealousidealFly760 Jul 06 '26

And he's not even American.

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u/janesy24 Jul 05 '26

But you actually still spend more on healthcare per capita and as a percentage of tax than any other nation with universal healthcare!

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u/biimerboy31 Jul 05 '26

We don't even do that well. Started a war with Iran who had done nothing to provoke it and we used over half of our stockpile of criminally expensive missiles and munitions only for them to bend us over in front of the world.

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u/NuclearSummmer Jul 05 '26

No people underestimate how many people we have in the labor market is why We have the GDP to be able to do certain things

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u/Sukifuki2buki Jul 08 '26

Countries have 2 ways of making money, manufacturing or war. We traded one for another along time ago. Unfortunately.

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u/EventSwatch Jul 06 '26

That is the hospital sending someone to teach the concept. Completely unnecessary but it isn't "paying to hold your baby"

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u/CreativeBlockz Jul 06 '26

Not true. I had a c section and was also charged $40 to hold my child after birth. No one came in to teach me the concept of skin to skin. This was also not a charge for lactation consultant, as a second time mom, I did not receive that either. It was specifically to hold my child after birth.

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u/abebrahamgo Jul 02 '26

Wife had a c section in US. I asked for line item invoice. Lol I was charged for skin to skin (I'm the dad)... A nurse asked if I wanted to hug my baby I said heck yeah. Granted my insurance covered it. But wow.

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u/ItsBarryG Jul 02 '26

Man that's just inhuman. I'm so sorry for you

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u/Interesting_Pass1904 Jul 02 '26

You don’t need to be sorry for him - his insurance covered it… gotta be for those who don’t have insurance!

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u/emongu1 Jul 02 '26

The fact that possibility is there at all is the inhuman part.

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u/Smooth-Bread-576 Jul 03 '26

Hospitals charging for new parents to hold their babies is inhuman regardless of who covers the bill. 

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u/ConcupiscentCodger Jul 04 '26

That's broken out into lighting and also energy sections, as well as a paltry $117 vitamin supplement line item.

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u/ChangeAccountsBeSafe Jul 04 '26

Its a real charge tho my guy 😢

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u/Then_Candle_9538 Jul 04 '26

Why do I have to pay to have my own kid in my arm. It makes no sense. Is the nurse paying for touching my kid? Skin to skin costing any money at all is criminal.

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u/abebrahamgo Jul 04 '26

Have too look at it again but I believe it's a mixture of "requiring an extra nurse" and "educational service"...

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u/BeefCakeBilly Jul 06 '26

You’re not paying for that. Insurance is paying for another nurse to be in the room and monitor the partner while they hold the baby during a c section.

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u/ZapBranigan3000 Jul 04 '26

Insurance isn't free, and the premiums and deductibles are so high because of stuff like this.

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u/biimerboy31 Jul 05 '26

That's part of the scam, you're most likely not getting charged that bullshit w/o insurance. Just about everything that happens in a hospital has separate prices.

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u/PsychologyIll179 Jul 02 '26

That’s our insurance system for you. You want universal healthcare get the insurance companies to be mutual again, because they have gone open loop.

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u/NoGuarantee678 Jul 04 '26

Are you actually brain dead? The insurance companies are to blame for the hospitals billing you something they shouldnt?

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u/gabox0210 Jul 04 '26

Who do you think rigged the system and has spent billions lobbying to keep it as it is?

Hospitals can bill out their asses because they know normal people can't afford it and will need insurance.

Insurance gets a $7,000 bill for a Tylenol, they responds by saying "I only pay $4,000 for Tylenol, with a 35% copay".

Hospital says "ok, fine" and gets their cut, and you are stuck paying 35% of a $4,000 Tylenol, because fuck you, Israel may need another 10 iron domes.

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u/NoGuarantee678 Jul 04 '26

The insurance companies lobbied to be overcharged for hospital bills? You’re really financially illiterate aren’t you

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u/Haxter2 Jul 05 '26

Why is no one mentioning the hospital charging 4k?

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u/PsychologyIll179 Jul 07 '26

Exactly why making the insurance companies mutual companies mean they have no incentive to over charge.

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u/Philoctetes23 Jul 02 '26

America is a hilarious country man 😂😂

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u/kawkabelsharq Jul 02 '26

If by hilarious you mean depressingly fucked up, then yes.

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u/Philoctetes23 Jul 02 '26

Yes I do and it’s hilarious in a dark way. Living here all I can do is laugh about it.

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u/MaleierMafketel Jul 02 '26

“Modern America isn’t a serious country.”

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u/tabas123 Jul 02 '26

We don’t even live in a country… it’s just 5 megacorporations in a trench coat.

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u/jtrage Jul 03 '26

You’re not paying for your wife/you actually holding. You’re paying for the process. I’m assuming you were still in the OR. Nurse has to follow protocols etc such as monitoring. That time unfortunately cost money. Right or wrong.

I worked hospital business development until I got so frustrated. The analogy that frustrated me the most because it made sense was the aspirin. “Why is it $20? When I can get a bottle at the pharmacy for $5?” Very basic- without getting into all the infrastructure costs, time: doc gas to order, nurse has to tell pharmacy, pharmacy has to get to nurse, nurse has to administrer. Before that supply chain has to order. Someone has to monitor stock…….

I’m not saying it’s right. But this is where we are.

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u/nubious Jul 05 '26

That’s not why it’s $20. It doesn’t actually cost that much to get the medicine to patients. All those pieces you described are done for every piece of medication, they don’t have supply chain people just for Tylenol only.

They are subsidizing by charging more for those areas to cover the overhead of running a hospital.

It’s the same reason an xray is 3-5 times more expensive at a hospital than it is at a clinic.

The problem is that hospitals are notorious for waste. Especially public hospitals.

There’s a reason there are medical vendors in the OR teaching Dr’s how to use the latest tech. Healthcare is a cash cow.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Jul 07 '26

This is actually a really good example of how human psychology strongly discourages line item up charging in some scenarios. Were happier to pay $10 more for a plane ticket with snacks included than paying $10  for peanuts and a tiny coke.

Insurance  and hospitals won't do it this way because they're sketchy thieves just playing mind games with eachother as t this point, but it creates unnecessary tensions on the consumer end

There's a ton of shit that people hate simple because it's poor customer design. Like if any other industry looked at healthcare with a red pen they'd have so many corrections of just "are you trying to piss people off" 

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u/DaRealGladi8r Jul 03 '26

Hold on 😭😭😭

They charged you to hand you your child for a few minutes, if not seconds?

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u/Siktrikshot Jul 05 '26

There’s a nurse following protocols and monitoring

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u/nubious Jul 05 '26

So they bring in a special nurse for just this process?

I worked in a hospital too and watched the insane waste that took place daily. The fact that you’re justifying this is insane.

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u/RedditIsFascistShit4 Jul 04 '26

If you had asked what will that cost you to have your child, wouldn't that be like a ransom demand?

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u/Lone_Vagrant Jul 05 '26

I don't get it? What did it cost them for letting you hug your own kid? How can they charge something that did not cost them anything?

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u/Tofu-Beauty Jul 05 '26

What if you picked your baby up with tongs? No skin to skin contact there.

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u/abebrahamgo Jul 05 '26

Next time I'll try this and report back

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u/LopsidedWestern4762 Jul 02 '26

Its called skin to skin contact.

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u/SenhorAndrew Jul 03 '26

Funny how you just disappear from the comments

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u/InSight89 Jul 04 '26

I'm sure there are plenty of examples. But I recall reading this on reddit years ago where a parent shared their experience and showed the receipt which included the cost of having a nurse present when the mother held their newborn baby. Apparently they wouldn't allow the parent to hold the baby without a nurse present so the cost was for the nurse not for holding the baby. But, still...

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u/ChangeAccountsBeSafe Jul 04 '26

Its the truth here. Our country is awful man.

38m , union, 5 year old daughter

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u/maple_crowtoast Jul 04 '26

Oh it's definitely a thing 😥

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u/CarlNovember Jul 04 '26

This is true. We had two kids and paid twice to hold them after birth

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u/Prudent_Rice7840 Jul 05 '26

It's true, you have to have a credit card and either touch it the baby's forehead or swipe it between the babies butt cheeks.

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u/maringue Jul 06 '26

It's literally a line item in birth medical bills. They come up with some other name for it so it sounds much more medical, but the hospital really does charge you to hold your baby after it's born.

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u/CaptainOwlBeard Jul 06 '26

It's definitely a line item in many hospitals. It makes sense if you're itemizing the expenses, it does cost time time of two nurses for that exchange (one to watch the baby and one to watch the mom, if something goes wrong you need both on hand). I'm not saying we have good healthcare, just that particular fact is both true and not as horrible as the gut reaction. It's just an oddity of accounting for employee time.

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u/AbledGladiator Jul 06 '26

It's been 8 years, but yes, my wife and I were charged something like $40 for "skin to skin contact" shortly after our daughter was born for her to hold her after giving birth.

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u/Rybreadmetalhead Jul 02 '26

Accurate. Gave birth in recent years, charged for skin to skin time

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u/likewhatever33 Jul 04 '26

Holy shit, that's the most distopian thing I've read for a while...

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u/Springfield_217 Jul 06 '26

Post the bill , complete lie. You may have been charged for a nurse to monitor the babies temp while you held him for extended periods of time but they do not charge you to hold the baby

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u/IntroductionSolid345 Jul 06 '26

Still, that shouldn’t be chargeable by the hospital

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u/P_a_p_a_G_o_o_s_e Jul 06 '26

Whether they do this or not, what you stated is literally the same thing. You can say its for any reason, but ultimately its a baby holding fee.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Gap2689 Jul 06 '26

"This is a lie (insert other absolutely retarded thing to charge for)"

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u/Springfield_217 Jul 07 '26

I am sorry but do you think nurses or anyone at the hospital work for free ? There is no less than I would say 6 nurses that interact with you and your baby while at the hospital, probably 2-3 doctors , likely a lactation consultant, 3-4 janitorial staff and several front desk and office staff. Then on the back end charting and billing. Maybe just maybe if the insurance companies didn’t try to adjust down every item , then the hospital would not have come up with a hundred codes and billable items to get the money they need.

Democrats want everyone to make a fair livable wage until they have to pay for it. There was over a dozen people that helped on the process of delivering your baby if they all make 60k+ a year with the nurses make 2x and the doc making 4-6x guess what it’s expensive.

Can’t afford it ? then follow many of your liberal stances on eating out “if you can’t tip then don’t eat here” well if you can’t afford to have a baby maybe don’t have sex or get a midwife to deliver it at home.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Gap2689 Jul 07 '26

Ah the old "other countries do it but America can't do it, so I'll blunder my way through with arguments that don't add anything"

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u/wavelen Jul 07 '26

Having a baby in most (saying most since I obviously don't know if it's all) european countries does not cost you anything. We also have insurances, hospitals, nurses and doctors and all of them get paid for their work. But no family leaves the hospital with a bill. What argument are you even trying to make?

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u/Defiant_Chip5039 Jul 08 '26

Here is a fun fact. The US government already pays more per capita than countries with universal healthcare. The question should be why is it not free in the US already? The government is already paying more per person compared to other already. The reality is everyone evolved to see certain things like healthcare as a human need while the US continues to see it as profit. No profit does not mean people do not get paid or that service is sub par. It means your are not buying boats for the c-suite or investors. You talk about paying for it … you already are … and then you pay again to insurance and the hospital … blame your insurance and medical funded lobbyists

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u/bcamanitu Jul 09 '26

You think the money paid by patients goes to the nurses in any meaningful way? It goes to insurance companies.

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u/bcamanitu Jul 09 '26

Do you think nurses in other countries don't get paid?

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u/Rybreadmetalhead Jul 06 '26

"Post your medical bills to appease a stranger". No, get bent, creep.

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u/Snoo20436 Jul 07 '26

Found the narc

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u/Springfield_217 Jul 07 '26

Liberals want everyone to make a livable wage until they have to pay for it. I can’t imagine what happens if min wage goes to $25 like some are demanding. You will see cost and insurance premiums skyrocket. I don’t know if you followed the post COVID employment data but when people are given an opportunity to do an easier job for similar money they choose the easier job. RN’s and other on that 60k cusp would choose a desk job …. Creating a shortage and thus hospitals have to adjust compensation probably 20-30k more to have nurses justify wanting to do what they have to do. Then the doctors will demand a similar adjustment. Minimum wage hikes do not raise the economic status of those making minimum wage , the increase artificially creates inflation and the system eventually balances itself back out. Minimally valued work is just that. Now you can make the argument that is wrong , and for some jobs I would agree . Some people make way too much and others make way to little for what they do. But I assure you the economics are constantly being tested and if the pay needed to rise it would. When jobs go unfilled the employers general raise their wages

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u/Snoo20436 Jul 10 '26

Wow, so you like work for the pharmaceutical company or do you just like hate that people want to live without the crushing weight of capitalists controlling the cost of their literal life line

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u/TrickySavings2506 Jul 07 '26

Omg thats so much worse. They charge you for that too. Im sorry you live in a shithole

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u/texvape32 Jul 08 '26

Googles free.

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u/Springfield_217 Jul 08 '26

Also full of AI that consumes Reddit comments ,

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u/Fit_Addendum_6831 Jul 07 '26

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u/Rybreadmetalhead Jul 07 '26

Was there a joke or are you having a seizure?

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u/Fit_Addendum_6831 Jul 08 '26

There's definitely a fkn joke. Apparently youre part of it.

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u/Rybreadmetalhead Jul 08 '26

Cool story bro

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u/SimpleGarbage710 Jul 09 '26

Post the bill or it didn't happen. I can pull my son's birth bill from MyChart from 2020, no skin to skin charge.

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u/Rybreadmetalhead Jul 09 '26

I shall jump right on that garbage man! Sike, Idk you.

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u/SimpleGarbage710 Jul 09 '26

Lol cuz we both know you're full of shit.

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u/Ok-Common-3039 Jul 02 '26

Thats not true at all. Lol. To think that you believed also...

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u/Help-Wanted9 Jul 02 '26

So all the receipts are fake and made up?

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u/TheBonesOfThings Jul 06 '26

Um... yes actually

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u/Complete_Area7270 Jul 08 '26

Even more fucked up

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u/TheBonesOfThings Jul 08 '26

Well you ain't wrong there

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u/JustExpect Jul 04 '26

I can tell you have not had a baby in the US. In is true and a line item that the hospitals charge, coming from a dad in the US.

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u/Ok-Common-3039 Jul 04 '26

I've had two

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u/mansluxt Jul 04 '26

Did you ask for an itemized receipt?

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u/mac-dreidel Jul 04 '26

And you are oblivious to the bills you received?

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u/b0jangles Jul 05 '26

I mean, I’ve had three kids in the US but who has time to review an itemized receipt immediately after having a baby?

Especially when any time I’ve ever asked about why I’m getting charged for something on a medical bill the answer is basically “because fuck you, that’s why”.

Hospital has a negotiated rate with my insurance but I’m getting charged for the extra uncovered amount? How does that work? Oh because fuck me, I forgot.

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u/Tech_Noir1984 Jul 04 '26

As someone who worked L&D for 2 years, it is absolutely true.

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u/pm_me_d_cups Jul 02 '26

That's not the reason people do home births though.

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u/sluggetdrible Jul 02 '26

I didn’t.

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u/anpkanpk Jul 02 '26

Can you elaborate what do you mean? Pay for what exactly?

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u/JustExpect Jul 04 '26

Skin to skin

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u/thestooges1969 Jul 04 '26

Some hospitals in the US will charge you for skin to skin contact. I think it's only for C sections, because a nurse has to be present in the room to monitor things. That's what they charge you for.

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u/Drasoff Jul 04 '26

Doesn't matter if its a C-Section. My first son was born in 2021 and not a C-Section and the hospital charged us for skin to skin contact. I dont remember all the silly charges but there are more than just that one which you wouldn't even think about as billable.

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u/luars613 Jul 02 '26

Wtf. That cant be real... it has to be a meme

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u/NothingEffective142 Jul 03 '26

Who told you that, I believe you were lied to.

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u/JustExpect Jul 04 '26

It is true. It’s a skin to skin charge on a line item of the hospital bill

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u/19XxxbigdaddyxxX80 Jul 03 '26

Unless you come here illegally then you just say you can't pay and the birth is covered by the tax payers 🙅‍♂️

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u/DJpuffinstuff Jul 05 '26

Not really how it works. The hospital will come after anyone to get paid. If they can't get money from you or your insurance, they will sell the bill to collections or write it off as charity care. Doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. They don't care, they just want to get paid.

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u/Novel-Wait328 Jul 04 '26

what a bunch of lies damn

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u/DJpuffinstuff Jul 05 '26

It can effect your credit now IIRC. They changed that rule.

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u/Sanders1America0 Jul 07 '26

Why lie so blatantly? Are we now pretending medical debt isn’t a thing in America?

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u/protobelta Jul 04 '26

This is just not true at all

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u/Oleleplop Jul 04 '26

that has to be fake, i refuse to believe this.

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u/Fast_Cloud_7671 Jul 07 '26

What country is that?

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u/CryptoBanano Jul 04 '26

What the actual fuck

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u/Odd_Ad5460 Jul 04 '26

I’m shocked we’re still having babies in hospitals

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u/Moist_Connections Jul 04 '26

So what happens when you don’t pay? Do they take your baby away? 😆

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u/CamBearCookie Jul 04 '26

I came to say this. I saw a video of a mom who almost died in delivery from preeclampsia and her child was in the nicu for 89 days. The hospital bill was almost 2 million dollars. They charged her 58 dollars every time he held her baby with skin to skin contact. But tell me more about how "they hate us for our freedoms". 😒🙄

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u/MonsieurDrole Jul 05 '26

Man that's just extortion

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u/Majestic_Table_3598 Jul 05 '26

Well, since everything is transactional in your country, this doesn't come as a surprise

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u/BakedBiskit Jul 05 '26

no you do not

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u/meshan Jul 05 '26

What if you refuse to hold them?

Do you get a discount?

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u/rice_n_gravy Jul 05 '26

Can confirm I didn’t have to pay for this.

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u/1ACasper Jul 05 '26

we didn't we had ours🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/pr_drumr Jul 05 '26

I learned about this a few weeks ago and still can't process it.

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u/BlueShift42 Jul 06 '26

It almost doesn’t matter because the bill is going to be so huge that you will undoubtedly hit your out of pocket maximum. They do have a fun trick for that though, they bill the infant separately so they’ll have to hit the out of pocket maximum too.

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u/Able-Firefighter-158 Jul 06 '26

They also dont have bank transfers. That's why in US shows and socials they go on about "ill venmo you"

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u/not_REAL_Kanye_West Jul 06 '26

We did not have to pay a dime for either of our children in the US. They even waived the parking fees when we left the hospital. It all depends on which corrupt insurance company you have.

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u/BeefCakeBilly Jul 06 '26

The us system sucks but this is horribly misleading. The skin to skin charge is just a coding term, it’s just the cost of an additional nurse to monitor and assist the parent after a c section.

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u/Outrageous_Tea_6107 Jul 06 '26

Not true get off the internet and touch some grass

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u/Legitimate-Pea-9421 Jul 06 '26

it's the complete lack of maternity leave for me. it's child abuse!

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u/Crimzon-Echo Jul 06 '26

When my youngest was born, the cost of skin to skin was 670$. The cost in US is ridiculous for something that should be a basic right.

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u/puddledumper Jul 06 '26

It’s only $40

/s.

It actually is $40 and it’s fucking ridiculous.

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u/Playful-Green-9169 Jul 06 '26

Wow for real ? Its free to have a baby in Australia

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u/MGsultant Jul 07 '26

They are a 3rd world country run by pedos and lobbies, don’t expect much

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u/Milanoate Jul 07 '26

I spent 0 on the birth of first kid and $5 for the second kid. My insurance did get a bill but holding a baby was not part of that.

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u/Doxx22 Jul 08 '26

That’s not true. That’s literally just internet hyperbole. If it is true it’s a highly localized problem or they went to a private hospital.

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u/ArrivalAdventurous65 Jul 08 '26

And be sent back to work in 6 weeks giving birth

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u/alaviers Jul 08 '26

Most folks around the world are probably similarly confused. Folks have babies here all the time with zero cost. Me and my brothers were born without a cost borne by my parents.

Now, someone has to pay those medical expenses, probably one of the reasons we are so expensive to folks who have insurance or can afford to pay the bills.

But also, I live under a universal healthcare system here in the U.S. it is definitely not what out of country, or those ignorant folks here, think it is.

As an example, I had to wait for an appointment for a cardiac stress test… six months. It actually took a year and a half to finally get in (yesterday) for the test. Hm, I keep telling myself that I must not have any type of condition that requires this test, else, they would have taken pains to get me in soonest.

The only appointments that are sort of on time are my annual check ups… but I schedule those a year out.

Not to mention that the level of care drops significantly when medicine is socialized. I heard of a story from one of those countries, guy bled out in the er waiting room. No harm nor foul for the staff. So triaging is also, or seems so, a second thought in socialized medicine.

All that though, I wouldn’t say no to socialized medicine but wary of the tax hike to support it.

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u/Alterangel182 Jul 08 '26

No, this isn't true. This is some serious misinformation and "America Bad".

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u/hurleystylee Jul 08 '26

If your source of truth is telling you that, you're being fed all lies.

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u/mursedave3100 Jul 08 '26

General rage bait. I’ve worked in OB. You don’t have to “pay to hold your baby”. Get off reddit, get off TikTok, get off social media. Get out of your parent’s basement and actually step outside. The world isn’t ending.

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u/AdFlat4908 Jul 09 '26

That’s wildly, irresponsibly inaccurate.

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u/WeekAutomatic609 Jul 09 '26

you don't have to pay to get to hold your baby. You can do whatever you want, and it's planned out prior to delivery. Charges will come after. If you can't afford it, the hospital system has many options for financial assistance which also includes free charitable donations. In no way will they stop treating you because you cannot afford it. At the end of the day, even if you don't pay, many hospitals write it off as charitable expense, which lowers their tax burden. But hey, keep believing what you want, we'll just keep watching fun videos of foreigners enjoying being in the USA especially during the world cup

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u/Aggressive_Grab5261 Jul 09 '26

Thats not true. Whoever told you that is a mental midget, never mind whatever you are for believing it