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U.S It’s one of the most expensive countries in the world to give birth or to receive any medical treatment, since there are no publicly funded health services, as in most developed countries, so people who are not covered by medical insurance can receive a gigantic collection account.
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It is very complex to establish an exact figure on how much it costs to have a child in such a large country. However, according to a report of Truven Health Analytics, a research and analysis organization for health care institutions in the United States, an average bill for a natural birth exceeds US $ 30,000 (about 564 thousand Mexican pesos). Likewise, an operation with caesarean section can reach up to US $ 50,000 (940 thousand Mexican pesos).
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The report shows that on average American women with commercial insurance provided by their employers They find that it only covers just over half of their total bill.
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About the announcement of birth of Solomon Andrew, son of José Ramón López Beltrán, and grandson of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on January 14, several media in Mexico reported that the delivery was given at the prestigious Texas Children’s Hospital, located in Houston Texaswhere does his wife live Carolyn Adams, who works in a company that provides Mexican Petroleum (Pemex).
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And in that state, the main ones are located cities with High specialty medical services. In cities like Houston, El Paso, San Antonio, McAllen, Austin, among other, the average cost, if you have insurance, would be USD 7,700 (about 144 thousand Mexican pesos), but if you do not have it, you can pay about USD 14,600 (about 274 thousand Mexican pesos), andn case it is a natural birth.
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If the birth It is by caesarean section and it has insurance, you can pay some USD $ 11,267 (about 212 thousand pesos). Otherwise, a little more than 19. 500 dollars (about 366 thousand pesos).
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The website Doctors for you, an agency that offers maternity services in Step, he imposed that prices range from USD 5,450 (about 102 thousand Mexican pesos) up to USD 7,125 (about 134 thousand Mexican pesos).
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In contrast, until last year, for the delivery service at the Angeles Hospital in Mexico City, they are paid around 16 thousand 700 pesos for one night (about USD 889); for two, the package has a cost of 18 thousand 900 pesos (about USD 1,005). While the planned caesarean section, for two nights, reaches a price of 28 thousand 350 pesos (about USD 1,508).
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The controversy of “maternity tourism” or “birthor”
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Even though the average cost for a childbirth in the United States is around USD 10,000, thousands of foreign mothers travel to the United States every year to give birth and thus have certain “facilities” to obtain the child’s citizenship.
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In fact One of President Donald Trump’s great wishes is to end this practice. Precisely in 2019, the president informed his intention to sign an executive order that would end such practice, which he described as “ridiculous”. He even said that “the United States is the only country in the world where this occurs”, despite the fact that this status is maintained in another 30 countries.
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The proposal was made days before the midterm elections of 2018, in which the Republican Party lost control of both houses and was left with only the Senate. Trump and his allies link citizenship by birthright with the broader effort to reduce illegal immigration.
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The concept of “Jus Soli”, which guarantees citizenship by birth, is enshrined in Amendment 14 to the Constitution. It grants citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status or lack thereof: “all persons born or naturalized in the US, and subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and the state where they reside,” he says in the Constitution.
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The concept of citizenship by birth right It was written in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which said that all people born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power were a US citizen.
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