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At least in the US, the mother's health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
Aaaand there's the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.
Yeah it gets a little bit... psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be assigned a caseworker who will then enroll them in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven't checked today...), and regardless they will receive necessary care until they're discharged. But hey, it's the US, none of this shit is actually guaranteed!
dystopian? this is bog standard capitalist formula, sadly.
so. yeah. dystopian.
Unmitigated capitalism. The rest of the capitalist world voted for mitigation like safety nets and public healthcare and anti monopoly laws and their enforcement.
The cyberpunk genre is only a little more unrestrained than the US economy
i vote that unmitigated is simply capitalism “winning” at its own game. (the idea being that at long enough time scale all capitalist systems will result in unmitigated outcomes and fascism.)
How it possibly be "bog standard" when it's the only developed nation on the planet where it's true?
development is a spectrum.
The united States is not developed, it's metastasized.
On top of the other point.
Capitalism is uninterested in your healthcare policy. That's your country's failure, not capitalism's, for once. Market pressures did not invent a gaggle of middle men siphoning the money between patients and care providers. That's a result of government failures that ossified into a corrupt system benefiting a select few, a scheme which is not unique to capitalism and is actually reminding me of soviet bureaucracy.
The distinction is not purely academic, because correctly pointing out that you're not fighting capitalism but corrupt bureaucracy makes reform a much easier sell, which is why healthcare reform is a transpartisan issue until donors and lobbyists get involved.