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jmowreader

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4. Here's another issue to consider

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 19, 2021, 02:24 AM

Dec 2021

The article said this hospital stay was billed out at around $600,000. One stay.

The child is currently on supplemental oxygen. And there's a good chance he will need more hospital time and more surgeries. By the time he makes it to elementary school, assuming he does, the insurer will probably be looking at over $1 million.

How many $1 million infants can an insurer handle before they go bankrupt?

And if the insurance companies say "no more, we can't do this, we hate to be heartless but we're about to become homeless," then what? Do the taxpayers pick up the tab? And how many of these cases can the government absorb before it goes bankrupt?

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