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Originally Posted by Locke
I disagree with that. Insurance or no insurance it should not cost a million bucks.
I mean, if you want to get paid then charge a reasonable amount, but I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that even though I've never met these people they likely dont have a million bucks lying around so they're going to go bankrupt and default on the payment.
Cut that number by three quarters and have an insurance company or government willing to chip in a bit and we're talking, otherwise they get nothing.
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this isn't a car repair bill Locke. The baby was born 3 month premature, and the treatment of premature babies is very complex and can be really expensive.
I don't know enough about the condition of the baby. But talking to my sister the doctor about the story she figures that the treatment and the specialist work and the lab work and anything else, its probably not that far out of the realm of possibilities.
We always get shocked by the costs of treatment up here, but that's because so much of it is covered and hidden in terms of costs from the end users.
we're not talking about a warming blanket, a family physician and a box of formula here.