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    My baby needed expensive intensive care, but my insurer was taking a long weekend. How can this be?

    My baby needed expensive intensive care, but my insurer was taking a long weekend. How can this be?
    by Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Dec 13, 2019 2 minutes

    On Thanksgiving evening my baby spiked a high fever. By Friday morning her little head started bobbing up and down as it became hard for her to breathe. My daughter had an infection and she was in respiratory distress.

    We rushed to a pediatric emergency room where the doctors recommended that she be admitted to their hospital’s intensive care unit. Because we ended up

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