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Trump administration could give $5,000 bonus to boost birth rate (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

$5k. So, if you have really good insurance, you can cover a couple months of stuff needed for caring for a baby. If you have mediocre insurance, you might be able to cover your "out of pocket" costs for the birth itself. If you have bad or no insurance, this $5k won't even pay off the medical debt for having the kid.

In short, the people this will help the most are the folks who probably already need it the least. And the folks who actually need the help the most will only be slightly less fucked by our broken medical insurance system. Like most of the policy ideas dribbling our of the AI chatbots this administration is using, it's poorly thought out, won't resolve the issues and ultimately is just "feel good" crap.