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Aug062009
Woman Gets $22,000 Bill From Health Insurance Company, Despite Supposed Maternity Coverage
“I didn’t realize that my choice to start a family would put us into debt,” says Sarah Wildman, a self-employed journalist and mother, after receiving a $22,000 hospital bill from her health insurance company that claimed to cover maternity care. “When you buy insurance on your own, there’s no guarantee that what you pay for is what you get,” she says, calling her private sector health insurance “anti-middle class, anti-entrepreneurial, and anti-family.” (0:45)
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