Look What You Pay For

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How many fat women have babies every year? The government keeps count in this annual report, Births: Final Data.

And there are interesting race differences.

Mothers are classed by BMI or body mass index as underweight, normal, overweight, or obese.

Overweight can be anything from the woman second from the right to just shy of the obese woman on the far right. Obese starts with the woman on the right and has no upper limit.

To begin with white mothers, 41.6 percent are normal, 26.4 percent are overweight, and 29.3 percent are sure-enough obese. That means more than half — 55.7 percent — are overweight or obese.

For blacks, only 28.5 percent of mothers have a normal weight, so “normal” loses its meaning. Twenty-six point seven percent are overweight, and 42.2 percent are obese, so 69 percent are overweight or outright fat.

Hispanic mothers are a little better off: 31.1 percent are normal, 31.2 percent overweight, 35.6 percent obese, for a combined heavy-to-fat figure of 66.8.

For some groups, the government reports only the combined percentage of overweight and obese mothers.

An astonishing 77.6 percent of Pacific Islanders and Hawaiians are in that group, as are 70.6 percent for Eskimos and American Indians. Both groups are fatter even than blacks who come in at 69 percent. Asian mothers are the least overweight or fat: 40.7 percent vs. 55.7 percent for white mothers.

How do they get fat? As you can see, almost half of the fatter groups got free food through the WIC program for mothers and babies while they were pregnant, and anyone on WIC is probably on SNAP or food stamps, too, so they were bulking up on your dime.

Fat matters. “The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Pregnancy” calls being fat the most dangerous avoidable risk factor for almost everything that can go wrong in pregnancy or childbirth: diabetes, preeclampsia, heavy bleeding, blood clots, prolonged labor, emergency C-sections, etc. It damages babies, too: malformations, neurological and feeding problems, low birthweight, still birth.

A fat mother can be as bad for her baby as an alcoholic mother.

The women in the fattest groups are also the least likely to be married. The black illegitimacy rate has pretty much levelled out, with the most recent year at 69.3 percent. Whites were pretty bad at 26.8 percent and Hispanics were worse: 54.2 percent. Black rates of bastardy, as we used to call it, were highest in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Wisconsin—over 80 percent.

In black ghettos, marriage has disappeared, and children don’t know a single married person — maybe a school teacher or two. For whites, bastardy is highest in West Virginia, at 43.5 percent. Puerto Rico has the highest rate of Hispanic illegitimacy at 71 percent.

We have to go the previous year to get illegitimacy rates for the fattest groups. For Eskimos and Indians, it’s up there with blacks: 68.1 percent. For Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, 52.3 percent.

Liberals used to pretend having children without a man was just a “lifestyle choice.” Now, all but the loonies recognize that bastardy is associated with poverty, crime, dropping out, drug-taking, mental illness, you name it.

Who pays when these fat single mothers have babies?

Here are the percentages of births paid for by Medicaid, which means you. From the left, beginning with Indians and Eskimos, 65.3 percent of their births were on your dime, with blacks almost as bad at 64.5 percent.

Pacific Islanders had 59.5 percent of their babies on Medicaid, with Hispanics right behind at 58.8 percent. Whites are at a fairly respectable 27.6 percent, and Asians are the most self-supporting at 22.1 percent.

I can’t find national illegitimacy rates for mothers on Medicaid, but here are figures from Ohio for 2020.

Unmarried mothers are in blue. Seventy-two percent of the women who had Medicaid babies were unmarried. Only 10 percent of self-insured mothers were single.

How much does government-funded baby-making cost? [link] According to this website, in 2023, the median allowable insurance cost for a vaginal delivery in the US was $13,946. For a C-section, it was $16,943.

Medicaid Mothers are more likely to smoke, be fat, miss checkups, be black, take drugs, have STDs, etc., so their births tend to be tricky.

There are no national data, so here is Ohio again on infant mortality per 1,000 live births by race and insurance type.

For mothers on Medicaid in 2020, the white figure was 6.8 and the black figure was twice that at 13.95. For self-insured mothers, the rates were lower, 3.51 for whites and 10.50 for blacks. Mothers on Medicaid have worse outcomes, and blacks have worse outcomes than whites, even with insurance.

With fat, unhealthy mothers and complicated births, Medicare deliveries have very high hospital costs, but the government pays only a fraction. This website from 2022 shows the state-by-state gap between what the government pays, on average, for relatively complicated Medicare births, and how much more private insurance pays, on average, for relatively simple births. The smallest gap was $2,000 in New York and the largest was $15,000 in California.

This is one reason insurance premiums are so high. Hospitals, by law, have to treat free-loaders, including pregnant illegals, but the feds don’t cover all the costs. Hospitals would go broke if they didn’t charge higher fees — in some cases much higher fees — to responsible working people who have insurance.

It’s hard to imagine a system better designed to ruin the country. Taxpayers, which largely means white people who work for a living, pay to fatten up millions of unmarried, largely non-white, unhealthy mothers who are on Medicaid — probably because they are dim and shiftless. They get pregnant and then have complicated deliveries you pay for, either through taxes or high insurance premiums. Married, middle-class, white working people are so heavily taxed to pay for spongers’ babies that many can’t afford more than one or two children of their own.

The United States has put evolution into reverse. We have survival of the least fit, thanks to a perverse system that forces the fit to pay the cost of rearing up an army of dependents for their own children.

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