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Originally Posted by Table 5
The thing is that actual medical care is really expensive everywhere. Keep a child in a neonatal unit for 2 months in Canada, and I doubt those costs would be that different. Doctors, nurses, medical equipment, administration, specialized medicine aren't magically a fraction of the price here.
The big difference is mostly just who pays for it.
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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
If Random American was hospitalized for six weeks when her water broke prematurely, and then needed the newborn to stay in neonatal care for two months, the cost would probably be the same. It's not like this is Typical American Baby DeliveryŠ though.
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No, and I understand all that, but Americans have premature babies too, I just have a very hard time believing that if this happened to any average, run-of-the-mill American under the exact same circumstances that the tab would be a Million bucks. May as well make it a Billion dollars, either way its uncollectable.