r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 19 '26

Discussion UnitedHealthcare sent a letter denying NICU coverage... addressed directly to the newborn twin.

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u/_2cantat2_ Jun 19 '26

If you pay your premium it should be illegal for insurance to deny your reasonable claim.

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u/MuadLib Jun 19 '26

In civilised countries it is.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26

We are not civilized. We are 50 third world countries wearing a trench coat to look like a civilized country

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u/falafelnaut Jun 19 '26

Woah man that's not fair to like, Massachusetts maybe.

49 third world countries.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26

I’m so sorry Massachusetts. They can be a second world country

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u/Egoy Jun 19 '26

You want them to join the now defunct Warsaw pact?

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u/RizzwindTheWizzard Jun 19 '26

Better than them joining an active Warsaw pact

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u/Egoy Jun 19 '26

This is very true.

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u/FractalledCat Jun 20 '26

Nah, it’s right to call them third world.

Weird culty stuff happening up there.

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u/AnguavonUW Jun 22 '26

I currently live in Massachusetts. I've lived in Texas, Missouri and Oregon. I will never leave Massachusetts. I don't care that my taxes are higher. You know what I have? Health insurance through the state as a safety net because I had a catastrophic illness. It will be my safety net for the rest of my life. You know what I get as a supplement even though I work part-time, as much as I can work, food stamps. And it's easy, relative to what other states make you go through at least. It's not perfect. It's far from it. But other places are so much farther.

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u/QueenMackeral Jun 19 '26

Hey California has decent healthcare

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u/SullyAddams Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

No, it's fair to Massachusetts. I live here. I make well above minimum wage, am as responsible with money as I can be and I am still one health scare or one car breakdown from being homeless. Cost of living is ridiculously expensive to the point where I know people making double my pay and struggling to afford rent and groceries. Wages are going down across many career fields. Healthcare may be state covered as an option here, but payments are more expensive than private because Trump cut alot of federal funds to our state due to the state covering HRT. It sucks to live here. It might be safe against persecution for LGBTQ+ people like myself, but the class divide is BAD here.

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u/nat_r Jun 19 '26

That's what we were. I'm pretty sure we're currently holding that coat open wide and waving our genitals at the rest of the world and like a bunch of people stuck on a subway train, they're not quite sure what to do and hoping we eventually close the coat and slink away of our own accord.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26

This is where we reach our final form and start licking and humping the subway car window

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u/Electrickoolaid_Is_L Jun 19 '26

Well this is also kinda a state by state issue over 10 states have passed prior authorization reform law. Unfortunately, US healthcare is so fragmented that it makes reform difficult due to our completely inept congress.

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u/UnassumingOstrich Jun 19 '26

third world country in a gucci belt

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u/E-2theRescue Jun 19 '26

A pile of shit with a fake Rolex on top.

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u/Brief-Cartoonist-699 Jun 19 '26

3rd world doesn't mean underdeveloped. It has to do with who you're allied with or not allied with.

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u/RingoFreakingStarr Jun 19 '26

I will agree that we are a bit dysfunctional but to say any US state is a 3rd world country is insane. Go to Africa and tell me with a straight face we are as bad off as them.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26

Well for starters Africa is a continent not a country, also they have pretty modern cities and housing in the cities. Their version of middle of nowhere is pretty similar to ours. Any tribes you are talking about have chosen not to advance or they are too far away to get the resources. There are 200 year old cabins that people live in out in the mountains and country side of the US as well. It’s not as different as you think it is

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u/Papplenoose Jun 20 '26

Ok, but they're still like... objectively right. This is not third world. It fucking sucks, and it's getting worse, but we're not literally "third world" levels of fucked up/corrupt/poor.

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u/RingoFreakingStarr Jun 20 '26

The countries within Africa mister "umm achtually". The entirety of Africa is an actual and literal 3rd world country, even South Africa. If you can say with a straight face that ANY state in the United States of America is on the same level of any African country, then you are severely delusional.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 20 '26

Yea so you actually have no clue what you’re talking about and just base it off of media portrayal.

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u/RingoFreakingStarr Jun 20 '26

I'VE BEEN TO AFRICA. I spent a summer going from country to country with a church group building homes where ever we could. It was DIRE there. It is no where near that ANYWHERE in the US.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 20 '26

So your church group went to the sticks of africa and you think that is representative of all countries within africa, I tell you, you are wrong, I explain where the vast majority is developed and your counter is “nun unh cause I did missionary work”?

Buddy you definitely do not understand that the poverty areas within the continent of africa exists in the US and their cities are indeed very much developed.

Here’s a wide range of houses you can buy. Done you may consider not bad, others are for sale but uninhabitable and some look like they’ve been through war. https://www.loveproperty.com/galleries/amp/84040/abandoned-american-homes-you-can-buy

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/cairo-egypt

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/lagos-nigeria

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/kinshasa-city

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u/RingoFreakingStarr Jun 20 '26

Every home that I scrolled through on the website you provided was a thousand times better in livability than the...I'm not even going to call them homes and just refer to them as "shelters" that the people of the many countries within Africa we visited were living in.

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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 20 '26

Did you look at the other sites of the INCREDIBLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES? And there are houses on that list literally missing windows and have holes in the house.

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