pkennedy

What exactly does that 5cents cover? Just your wages? I assume it can't cover the cost of feed and the animals themselves.

Could you sell your chickens for $2/lbs yourself? Or do you need the scale of Purdue to get those prices that low? Seems like a lot of people would buy those, even if they were organic. I personally don't need organic, but a step up would be nice.

Bonus fact. When the baby arrives that's a new person and deductible. So anything done to the baby after delivery goes under his deductible! Congrats but you might get a 9k bill instead if 4k.

Well that is a pretty impressive operation then.

If you own everything else, could you purchase your own livestock, and feed, then sell them for the $2/lbs or would that be impossible without the scale or purdue?

It seems like an insurance company could almost provide a plan that only provided their negotiated pricing for customers. As a start, that would allow people to have access to proper billing, and probably for a lot cheaper.

You call up with an issue, they tell you facility X will charge you $Y under our contracted rates.

I always like to point out the cost of raising a child in the US is roughly 250K to parents and 250K to the government. Then you hit your working years and then your next expensive phase of life, medical care when you're older.

You don't want to bring in janitors who will cost you 500K at end of life, but probably not introduce that much in terms of taxes -- you want those as illegals who you can boot out later, and why pay 250K to raise them either? Just get them from 18-65.

As for highly educated, there is around 1% of the US with a PHD, I'm not sure how many of those are imported either. But that means it costs roughly 100 children @ 250K a piece, or 25M per PHD child. Every time one is let into the country, that's a 25M savings.

Even if you're not working in an underserved area, bringing in 25M a pop is a hell of a bargain, and pretty devastating for whatever country loses that asset.