A couple were told they faced a $200,000 (£146,500) medical bill when their baby was born prematurely in the US, despite them having travel insurance which covered her pregnancy.

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      The best way to lower birth rates is free contraception. The birth rate in the US is too high…

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        Best we can do is get rid of medicade and charge you for murder if you abort or use plan b. Once you are in debtors prison Your baby will then be transferred into a Mossad run sex trafficking and jerky processing operation

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      Interestingly it is still higher than a lot of European countries which have affordable healthcare

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        different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they’re living in misery, whereas in europe we’ve long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.

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          It’s actually the same in the US. Misery increases the birthrate.

          Our birthrate is higher because we traditionally have had a higher immigration rate from countries with higher birthrates.

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          Yeah in most European countries at least half the kids survived to adulthood now. So if you have four kids at least two of them will survive and that’s all you need to pull the ox