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Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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NICUs are capital and professional labor intensive. I got to meet the team of doctors and nurses who kept my son alive and thriving for the three months between birth and due date. Idk what the magic number to care for him should have been, but I don't think six figures is an unfair estimate in any socio-economic system.
The question after that is "Who paid for it?" And, in my case, it was Medicaid, which was a huge relief. These poor bastards clearly didn't have the option.
Why it's so capital intensive is another issue, but the matter of six figures being reasonable is to compare that to costs of similar treatments in other countries (usually it's an order of magnitude more expensive).
Healthcare just can't be free market bcs the demand side cannot be free by definition.