I believe that a woman goes through the devastating trauma of delivering a stillborn baby and they have insurance that the balance should be written off. I delivered my sleeping baby boy and my insurance paid like $50,000 and I got a bill for like $9,000!!! I didnt even get to bring home my baby. There are illegals that show up and get free medical treatment and I pay taxes and for insurance and STILL had to pay for a baby I didnt bring home!
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$9K? Dang. I think all births should be free, or at least a more reasonable copay. Sorry for your loss.
Thank you! Yeah it’s pretty ridiculous. I mean if your insurance is paying the hospital like $50k but if u are uninsured it’s probably like 1/2 that than the balance should be written off!!!
I wrote a formal policy proposal to help address this. I suffered the stillbirth of my son too. I hope you will consider voting for it to help its place in the algorithm. It’s not complete medical debt forgiveness like you are proposing but I think it’s a really good place to start and get the conversation going 
https://forum.policiesforpeople.com/t/tax-credit-for-stillborn-children-judahs-act/3637?u=leahyork
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