TIL Medicaid is the single largest payer of birthing in the United States, covering more than 40 percent of births across the country.
Who Will Deliver America’s Babies? | Dame Magazine
Having to pay, to give birth, sounds shocking to some if not even many civilized countries
I dont have private healthcare and our health srvice is shit but I have mever put my hand in my pocjet beyond parking for any pregnancy related anything, and my kids have been to GPs and A&E without charge.
ThebUS is a shithole country
As an American, I agree.
Here's how it works in a poor third world country: https://archive.is/FL9qe (Original Washington Post article)
It's not just ER. Family medicine, dental, vision, full cancer treatment, palliative care... It's all free, including drugs, for every human, citizen or otherwise, legal or otherwise. There was a conscious decision not to restrict healthcare access and not to employ people to restrict access.
Technically you don't have to. People have been having children since at least the 1500s, and they didn't have medicade. There is nothing illegal about simply having a baby.
So, folks only started having babies in the 1500s? In your mind, how did people procreate before that?
Yeah.. humanity has moved on. We dont let people die just because we dont need them
Wait a minute, if we cut this and birth rate falls, economy also falls because lower population usually leads to smaller growth in economy. Now if we deport hardworking immigrants, it will also be worse off for the economy.
What's the goal here? Make things worse?
Yes. Rich people make bigger gains when the economy crashes. They can buy up assets for cheap. Look at all those 'record breaking profits' made during COVID.
It is actually how the system works, just on steroids. Capitalism has the innate tendency for monopolization. At the end, the whole world will belong to one person and that person will rule everything. its just totalitarianism with extra steps.
I’ve said this a few times. The developed world was built around growth, and most of the developed world has a total fertility rate problem. And here are the US conservatives, dumbest of the dumb, doing everything they can to drive people out of the country.
The wikipedia article has a nice color coded map.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
ofc. The goal is to destroy the country so oligarchs can come in and buy up everything at a fraction of the cost it would have cost had they not destroyed the country.
This of course will turn the US into a 3rd world economy and lose its status as a world power. The countries that will do well over the next century are the ones that can prevent oligarchs from dismantling their economies and destroying their society.
AND blame it all on the democrats. And the immigrants. - fuck, we deported those ...
Seems like a win for housing affordability and climate change though!
Robot army and the 1% massacres the 99%
More free farm labor.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins laid out the administration’s vision in blunt terms on Tuesday. “There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way,” Rollins told reporters after meeting with Republican governors. “We move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which, again, with 34 million people—able-bodied adults on Medicaid—we should be able to do that fairly quickly.”
Slimey piece of dog shit.
Just to be clear they are counting every single adult on Medicaid as "able bodied" which is far far from true for Medicaid.
All of those “able bodied adults” on Medicaid will of course be able to do farm labor.
Just like my younger sibling, who has a genetic disorder with scoliosis that makes him look like Quasimodo and had three open heart surgeries before the age of 18.
I mean Germany requires people to work if they are on welfare. And their job placement program can even place you as a prostitute.
Anti-Choicers were never pro-life. Never.
anti-poor, anti-woman, anti-black.
take your pick. usually all three.
If I was “pro-life,” I would be investigating the fact that black women in the US are 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women are.
Wait, you guys have to pay for births?
Don't you have problems with sinking birthrates?
You can't have an abortion in some states either now.
According to the most recent data, the average cost of having a baby in the United States is approximately $18,865. Fortunately, if you have health insurance, you will typically pay $2,854 on average, or about 15% of the total cost.
https://www.uwhealth.org/news/how-much-does-it-really-cost-have-baby
Yes, and it can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Also yes.
Do you not understand we have a class issue? Any cost the oligarchs can pass off onto the proletariat is done with gusto.
This article doesn't even touch on the fact that Planned Parenthood can no longer take Medicaid because of this budget bill.
Was. It was. Well I mean it will be till next year then instead we will have lots of uninsured births and I assume a huge uptick in unskilled at home births and a huge uptick in dead babies. MAGA and MAHA indeed.
No Planned Parenthood is already not able to take Medicaid/Medicare in some places
And if you can't pay, they put the baby back in.
Baby not guaranteed to be inserted to the same mother
Europeans: "That has to be paid??"
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MAGAmorons: HAVE MORE BABIES ALREADY GEEZ!!
Also MAGA: let's cut Medicaid to feed the poor poor billionaires.
🤡 🤡 🤡
Working as intended to maximize new debtor creation. 🙄
At least the religious idiots who have nine or twelve children will go bankrupt.
Most of them aren't on medicade.
You haven't seen many Mormkn plural families, have you? Theyre on as many govern,ent subsidies they can possibly get.
All three of my children were born due to Medicaid. No way would I have afforded even one of my children births. My youngest is 16 and without Medicaid guess I will pay out of pocket for his healthcare.
So what you are telling me is that if we cut it we'll have fewer poors?
I always point out that the capitalist robber barons profit directly from having a pre-born, pre-literate workforce pool, they just want it for free.
Part of their whole socialism for costs capitalism for profits thing.
At least if it does come down to civil war the conservatives would already have destroyed their communities.
"We must be blessed because Gawd took that one too!" Fucking idiots.
Happy world population day
I mean its obviously not going to be medicare.
40% of us children are born into poverty🤡
I guess the pedophiles who own us need a steady supply of poor people's children for them to rape.
Welcome to 2025 America ✊
project for pedophiles 2025
But they are cutting the subsidy for creating more poor people. If they benefited from poor people existing they wouldn't do that.
They're too short-sighted to see that. They're also booting out many of their cheap, opressed labor that are also consumers and taxpayers.