That’s what you get for being born in the USA
It improves the morale of the future worker.
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thefluffiest@feddit.nl 1 day ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I was born in China. Immediatly got a massive fine for the crime of being the 2nd child. 💀
I was lucky they didn’t just abort me. (government people didn’t stop my birth in time…)
Spider89@lemmy.world 1 day ago
?.. Is it illegal to have more than one child?..
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Life is considered a pre existing condition.
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just grit your teeth and bear it, baby. If you were an adult, you’d wish you’d just gotten spanked instead of having your life ruined.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Akshually they do. They’re just hidden.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Surprise teeth.
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Baby, don’t grit your hidden teeth. They’ll bleed, and you don’t have insurance, baby.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
assuming she has one
Aaaand there’s the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah it gets a little bit… psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be enrolled in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven’t checked today…), and they will receive necessary care until they’re discharged. But hey, it’s the US, that’s not guaranteed.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The baby, keenly aware of their lack of insurance and the implications of growing up poor in America, asks the nurse for a 4rth trimester abortion.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are a lot of “state options” for the poor, but these are often terrible and only cover the most basic services. You may not even qualify for this in some states depending on requirements. Like, a lot of places now won’t provide any assistance without an address, monthly interviews or check-ins AND proof of income.
Jorn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That was not the case with my sister. She has pretty good insurance and had really good care. She ended up making a phone call an hour or two after her premature baby was born to add her to the policy because her now uninsured baby was in the NICU.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at lwast) so I can’t say what specifically happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose wile maintaining privacy of the person in question.
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 9 hours ago
Indian here. Everybody’s calling this a US thing, but isn’t this a standard way to get a baby to cry so it knows how to breathe?
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
It is a joke about US insurance.
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 5 hours ago
Welp! Seems I missed the alternative semnatics for “uninsured”…
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only in America…
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lol Americans
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 day ago
I want a woman that can do this to me.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
delivery your child? there’s a lot of them….
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
willing to have your child… probably not as many
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 day ago
Can there be mechanical assistance such as pulleys?
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
just someone to show you the ropes.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Draw you like an infographic meme and paste text above you?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly, me too. It’s not even sexual. Entirely. I just want her to adjust my back like never before.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 22 minutes ago
Don’t cut the umbilical cord too short, btw. It will “turn inside” during growing up, and if you cut it too short at birth, then it leaves a hole in your belly later in life.