It improves the morale of the future worker.
It improves the morale of the future worker.
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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?
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It is a joke about US insurance.
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Welp! Seems I missed the alternative semantics for "uninsured"...
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Life is considered a pre existing condition.
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No cover for you, your disease is caused by your life and that's a pre-existing condition. Denied.
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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.
Oh shit, you don't have any teeth. Sorry, baby.
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Akshually they do. They’re just hidden.
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Surprise teeth.
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Baby, don't grit your hidden teeth. They'll bleed, and you don't have insurance, baby.
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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.
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assuming she has one
Aaaand there's the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.
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Yeah it gets a little bit... psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be assigned a caseworker who will then enroll them in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven't checked today...), and regardless they will receive necessary care until they're discharged. But hey, it's the US, none of this shit is actually guaranteed!
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The baby, keenly aware of their lack of insurance and the implications of growing up poor in America, asks the nurse for a 4th trimester abortion.
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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.
I have been to the bottom at least once when I lost a lot of family members in a short time, lost my business and had a massive mountain of health expenses and debts. I basically lost everything due to circumstances and it was damn nearly impossible to climb out again. The US makes it very, very expensive to be poor. The hoops you have to jump through to get even the most basic help make it almost prohibitive.
If I could suggest anything to anyone out there who has even basic needs met... go donate to a local food-bank/public pantry. It doesn't have to be much, especially with the holidays. Cash will go a long way, but anything will help from vegetables from your garden to a few pairs of new, cheap socks. Those places saved me and I am paying it back.
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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.
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I don't have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at least. Maybe someone slipped them to me when I wasn't looking) so I can't say what 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 while maintaining privacy of the person in question. They may simply have been forcing all the adminsitrative stress asap so she could focus on the whole "nicu baby" thing.
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Only in America...
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I want a woman that can do this to me.
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Can there be mechanical assistance such as pulleys?
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just someone to show you the ropes.
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Draw you like an infographic meme and paste text above you?
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Honestly, me too. It's not even sexual. Entirely. I just want her to adjust my back like never before.
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Lol Americans
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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.
WTF are talking about?