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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Parallel situations
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:40:59 GMT
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- In <1993Jan1.015955.117@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.210320.9276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>> Kevin Darcy
- >>> Larry Margolis
- >>
- >>>>Similarly, there is no formal "billing" of pregnancy/child-support costs
- >>>>until a child is born, and the paternity award is made, but that doesn't mean
- >>>>the charges aren't INCURRED before the child is born.
- >>>
- >>>The charges are incurred by the woman whether or not a child results; the
- >>>man is only obligated to pay a portion of those charges if a child results
- >>>and a paternity award is made. If no child results, then there is no
- >>>paternity award, and therefore no financial obligation for the man even
- >>>though charges were incurred by the woman.
- >>>
- >>Minor quibble, just to keep the facts straight...
- >>Kevin, the OB types I know all have charges which are paid by the
- >>pregnant woman as pre-natal care is administered. Even those with
- >>insurance have deductables, co-payments etc. So there most certainly
- >>*is* formal billing of pregnancy costs before any child is born.
- >
- >What you contributed, Mark, while perhaps true, is irrelevant to the issue at
- >hand.
-
- Actually, what Mark described is *exactly* what I've been talking about.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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