Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money?

HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you have a master’s and 20 years of experience, youre pretty much guaranteed to have a job that has the health insurance to pay for all of that. If you don’t, then you need a new job

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  • Hoomod@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they’ve got a masters and 20 years of experience they’re either a genius or almost 50 years old. Children are already a huge commitment, being older makes it that much harder

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have 15 years of experience in software engineering, but that’s only because I started when I was 12

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      • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Generally it’d be professional experience.

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  • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Health insurance still leaves you with a large bill. Expect like $10k for the hospital part for a lot of insurances. Don’t forget the obgyn visits throughout the pregnancy (probably only $25-$75 per visit, depending on if you need a specialist). Labs are extra. In fact, the one that really tells a lot of info (lots of recessive gene issues can be found with it) is like a $750 lab that insurance doesn’t usually pay for (“it’s too new, and not required”).

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have 2 children. Insurance covered almost everything. The out of pocket expenses for the hospital were something like $700, not thousands. For doctor’s visits it was just the $20 co-pay for each visit, and all the labs were fully covered.

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      • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good insurance! Our child born this year the hospital bill looks like around $8k after insurance, but we keep getting other bills from the provider’s offices so it’s hard to say exactly. Fortunately my wife has a secondary insurance of some sort we can submit the $8k to get that knocked down to hopefully $4k. If it works. It’s been months trying to get it sorted.

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had an 8k bill for a TIA I had last year. It’s a lot of money, but if you have a job that will cover your hospital bills, you can probably pay for it without drowning

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  • HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea my bad on my comment, I was just talking about general cost of how to afford not insurance of birth costs

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  • xts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure, maybe the hospital bills but raising 3 kids and going on vacations every year? You’re talking multi million dollar salary to be able to afford all of that on one income in SoCal of all places

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then… Don’t live in SoCal?

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• ilovesatan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Leave California and this all becomes possible with your salary.

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  • betz24@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When he leaves California, he will leave his salary too (and possibly his industry too)

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It will still be more affordable. We couldn’t afford to live in SoCal after my daughter was born. We moved back to Indiana where we grew up and, as awful as Indiana is in many ways, at least we could afford to buy a house.

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    • nucawysi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not if its a remote job…

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      • xts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Remote doesn’t pay the same if you’re not in a HCOL area. Most jobs scale based on location

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