WOMAN WAS CHARGED $39.95 TO HOLD HER NEWBORN BABY

A woman who had given birth back in September was going over her hospital bill. Right there on the bill, it’s printed: 9/04/16 – “Skin-to-skin after C-Section”. After the baby was born, the new mother wanted to hold him. The hospital charged her for this. The unnamed woman posted a picture of the hospital invoice with the caption: โ€œI had to pay $39.95 to hold my baby after he was born.โ€ The name of the woman and the hospital have been blacked out, so itโ€™s not clear where the woman lives or what hospital sheโ€™s talking about. The story made it to Reddit.com where it has received over 11,000 comments from other mothers with incredible hospital bill stories.
* These Obamacare stories keep getting worse and worse.
* Now we know where the airlines get their ideas.
* If the woman doesn’t want to pay, do the doctor and nurses play “Keep-Away” with the baby?
* How much do they charge to let you take your baby home?
* Just take the $39.95 out of the kid’s allowance, incrementally, and he’ll never notice.
* The only surprise is that it wasn’t more.
* That sounds more like a $500 hospital charge to me.
* Just charge the hospital for any nursing the baby does there.
* How about $700 a nipple?

(See the bill here: http://imgur.com/e0sVSrc)