An influencer has posted on TikTok a video that has gone viral in which she says that, at the last minute of her pregnancy, she has decided to give birth in a public hospital and not in the private clinic where she planned to do so because, despite having private health insurance, they asked her up to 10,000 euros for childbirth. The young woman, who is called Keto with Laura on TikTok, where she has almost half a million followers, tells in a video that, at 40 weeks and five days of pregnancy, she was called from the private clinic where she was going to give birth and was told that her private insurance of Asisa did not cover admission or hospitalization. "The first thing I did was panic," he recalls.

The price she had to pay to give birth in the center she had planned ranged between 6,000 and 10,000 euros. "A vaginal delivery is 6,000-7,000 euros and by cesarean section from 9,000 to 10,000 euros plus the extras and all paid at once. It is the real cost of health and there you realize how lucky we are to have insurance, to have social security and public health. That I understand the costs, but another thing is that I can assume this right now, "he explains.

The young woman, who has been paying a monthly payment of 51 euros a month for four years for her health insurance, had planned to give birth in a private hospital of the Quirón Group in Barcelona. She acknowledges that "a lot of this" is her fault since the private clinic where she was going to give birth two months ago told her to call her insurer to confirm that it included hospitalization and childbirth. "I didn't call to ask again because I had had two ER visits and assumed I included it. Silly of me, don't make the same mistake as me, I should have called," she admits.

After receiving the news, she decided to go to the Sant Joan de Deu public hospital in Barcelona, where she has finally decided that she will give birth. "I had a feeling of so much peace and so well in that hospital that it was incredible," she says: "Although everything in Asisa is fixed, I feel calmer right now in the public hospital." "Long live public health, long live public hospitals and long live health personnel," he concludes.

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