Re:The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
by ThomPete on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:21AM
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My first son was born 10 weeks too early, we lived in Denmark at the time, cost 0.
My second son was born in New York and we had good health care coverage costed us nothing.
Right now we are on Cobra and we are fine. But once thats up we will have to find something else and I worry about the cost of that plan.
One thing I have learned though is that it's normally possible to negotiate the price down quist substantially (more than 50% sometimes) especially because these days it's the hospitals themselves who need to do the collecting and they simply aren't prepared for that (patient cost sharing up 230% and deductibles up more that 60%) They just want some money.
My second son was born in New York and we had good health care coverage costed us nothing.
Right now we are on Cobra and we are fine. But once thats up we will have to find something else and I worry about the cost of that plan.
One thing I have learned though is that it's normally possible to negotiate the price down quist substantially (more than 50% sometimes) especially because these days it's the hospitals themselves who need to do the collecting and they simply aren't prepared for that (patient cost sharing up 230% and deductibles up more that 60%) They just want some money.