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About Rx Kids

27 pointsby mooredslast Friday at 2:58 AM13 commentsview on HN

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dominicqtoday at 10:30 AM

Rx? Is it like Rx by Paul Le Roux, famous drug kingpin?

drayfieldtoday at 10:26 AM

What a fantastic charity, I really love the idea.

usernametaken29today at 10:00 AM

Germany recently discussed raising health insurance premiums for families (because families cause higher costs). Instead of the stick we need to use the carrot. Everybody is asking why birth rates plummet. It’s simple. Having a family costs a fuckton of money. I personally know a bunch of well-off people who have decided against children since they don’t think they’ll be able to sustain any way of middle class existence with kids. Having a program that supports mothers like this, cash, no strings attached, is awesome. The last thing people need is to jump 1000x bureaucratic hoops when they’re broke and have basically zero sleep. Hats off, cool charity!

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GaryBlutotoday at 9:52 AM

Such a strained metaphor designed to obscure the fact it's just taxpayer-funded welfare for expectant and new mothers without any background checks, drug testing, income limits or work requirements.

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