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Tax benefit could require a doctor test with an attached NPI. Docs are not gonna risk their license to save you $3K on taxes. Also, miscarriages only happen 10
by e-clinton 4y ago
Tax benefit could require a doctor test with an attached NPI. Docs are not gonna risk their license to save you $3K on taxes. Also, miscarriages only happen 10-15% of the time.
These documents are also “needless” if a born child dies, doesn’t make them any less required.
Agree on passport, was just picking random examples to illustrate my point.
- al_borland 4y agoI'm against anything that makes the tax code more complicated than it already is. No one should need a doctor's note to do their taxes. Like you mention, miscarriages happen 10-15% of the time, but the infant mortality rate was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2020 [0], that's less than 1%. So once a child is born there is a significantly higher chance of that paperwork being meaningful. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/...
- moistly 4y agoRegarding 10-15%: “Spontaneous abortion was found to be: i) the predominant outcome of fertilization and ii) a natural and inevitable part of human reproduction at all ages.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/372193v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/372193v1 Admittedly, most of those wouldn’t be classified as miscarriages because many fertilized ova don’t implant, and many more are lost as part of what the woman will consider a “regular” period: the blastocyst being so undeveloped that its loss isn’t noticeable. Still, most fertilization never make it to term, regardless of access to healthcare services.