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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

have baby

get paid

sell baby

get paid

have another baby

get paid again

infinite money glitch ☝️🥸

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Lol enough for a month's supplies. So what about after that? Oh guess you're on your own! Aren't you happy you managed to have a decent life for a month? Oh well back to poverty and anxiety for you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's one baby, Michael. How much could it cost, 5k?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 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.

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

Wow, $5,000! That's almost 3 whole months of daycare! That'll cover the cost of a new child for sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Great, more babies bound for foster care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trump really doesn’t have a clue how much it costs to have a baby let alone raise one, does he? $5k is a drop in the bucket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That wouldn't even cover the delivery, even after good insurance pays out "their portion"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

$5k is at least one order of magnitude too small

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

US News puts the average cost to be $300k. So yeah, a bit off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I believe the term is pulling an Elon