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I worked at a hospital. We did not have a NICU, but i saw a few transported to the one down the street from our L&D department.

If anyone thinks parents are actually counseled to let their children die because of the cost, you need to think again. In our Labor and delivery group and the one at the NICU down the street (it is literally down the street) the people working there fight harder than you can begin to imagine to keep every baby alive.

There ARE cases where babies are so deformed that they would not survive, even with an army of dedicated staff.

In none of these cases does “cost” or ability to pay even come into play.

The medical world is made out to be full of grim reapers who cannot wait to kill and poison you for a dollar. In the five years I worked there, among the front line staff the cost to treat a patient was never a factor. Keeping costs down overall was certainly something everyone was aware of, but those are two very different things.