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Canadian parents hit with a bill of almost $1 million from a US hospital after their baby was born prematurely on vacation in Hawaii are now facing possible bankruptcy. Their story provoked a social media storm with many people offering to help.
Jennifer Huculak-Kimmel was six months pregnant when she travelled to Hawaii with her husband. She had consulted before the trip with her doctor, who gave her the go-ahead to travel. Things went wrong when her water broke two days into the trip. Jennifer was taken to the hospital by air ambulance and spent six weeks on bed rest before her baby girl was born by emergency caesarean section last December. Her daughter Reece, born nine weeks prematurely, spent two months in intensive care. Huculak-Kimmel was hit with a $950,000 bill, which the insurer refused to cover, citing a "pre-existing condition" allegedly not declared by the mother-to-be before the trip.
"Blue Cross said that because I had a bladder infection at four months and hemorrhaged because of that, that they would not cover the pregnancy," Huculak-Kimmel told CBC.
Reader Comments
Attempted Shakedown
This is typical of what an uninsured person faces in the US. This
bill is a fiction based on a collusion between hospitals and Insurance
companies. If this were sent to an insurance company, it would be not more than
1/3v of this. Medicare would pay even less.
This is a con game. There was a time when this would have been criminal fraud
even in America.
This is typical of what an uninsured person faces in the US. This
bill is a fiction based on a collusion between hospitals and Insurance
companies. If this were sent to an insurance company, it would be not more than
1/3v of this. Medicare would pay even less.
This is a con game. There was a time when this would have been criminal fraud
even in America.
News?
Why is this news? This stuff happens everyday. It's what insurance companies do. They take your money and when you need to file a claim they make some excuse to reject it.
Why is this news? This stuff happens everyday. It's what insurance companies do. They take your money and when you need to file a claim they make some excuse to reject it.
Why the bloody fuck does being born cost one million dollars??
Was her bed made of gold? Was she fed caviar and old French wine every day? Was the baby genetically enhanced to be smarter and stronger?
Never mind insurance not covering the costs. I don't understand how the costs can add up to a million dollars in the first place.
My brother's wife gave birth at home alone and it didn't cost anything.
Was her bed made of gold? Was she fed caviar and old French wine every day? Was the baby genetically enhanced to be smarter and stronger?
Never mind insurance not covering the costs. I don't understand how the costs can add up to a million dollars in the first place.
My brother's wife gave birth at home alone and it didn't cost anything.
Textbook move by yanks, straight from Michael Moore's Sicko.
Good luck collecting on that debt. No debtors prison in Canada, and youre not extraditing for that one.