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It’ll be better if hospital births are funded under universal healthcare paid for by taxes from everyone, including the mother birthing the child.

jimlongton 4y ago
I think most Europeans would be shocked by the cost of having a baby in the US. See 'A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a (UK) royal baby' [1] [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typical-american-birth-costs-as-much-as-delivering-a-royal-baby https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typica...
- daveslash 4y ago
  Is that right!? Wow, I'm honestly surprised it's that low. As an American, I totally would have expected it to be at least double that, but most likely more. I haven't had a kid yet, but my wife had outpatient surgery a couple of years ago to remove a cyst. I hung out in the waiting room and we were out of there before lunchtime. Our insurance was billed nearly $100,000. We (thankfully) have good insurance (tied to my employer, of course), and we hit our annual out-of-pocket max with that one operation.
- markx2 4y ago
  There are two points here. 1. The actual cost 2. What is charged As a father of two here in the UK and one birth requiring serious surgery I have no clue at all what the cost was. Why? Because our National Health Service did not send me a bill because the charge was zero. Cost? All the medical staff were going to be paid anyway, all equipment was there and powered on, all drugs used were already budgeted for. So the 'cost' was all part of the service.
kodyo 4y ago
No. Some of us aren’t communists and would rather have less government control over our lives.
- kodyo 4y ago
  Now watch the communists downvote me.
  - nh23423fefe 4y ago
    you dont know what a communist is
    - kodyo 4y ago
      A good enough start would be someone who sees an humane act of community and brotherhood by a Christian minister, and their response is that the state should confiscate everybody's money to pay for it after laundering it through bureaucracy instead. Most of us aren't communists.
      - uni_rule 4y ago
        Those god-forsaken Canadian communists.
      - nh23423fefe 4y ago
        Don't repeat lies over and over to try to make a point.
  - RileyJames 4y ago
    You should really write down a list of countries in which the government passes on the full cost of childbirth to a citizen. See what the anti-communist block looks like these days. You’re going to hate this: Not only does Australia and New Zealand cover the full cost, all with tax payer money. They then take even MORE tax payer money and give it to the parents as a thank you for having a child. And when you find out that a tax credit and ‘handing out tax payer money’ are the same deal, you’re going to flip.[1] https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax-credit https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax...
- trs8080 4y ago
  Better it be private corporations who jack up prices and whose sole motive is profit.

jimlongton 4y ago

I think most Europeans would be shocked by the cost of having a baby in the US. See 'A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a (UK) royal baby' [1] [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typical-american-birth-costs-as-much-as-delivering-a-royal-baby https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typica...

daveslash 4y ago
Is that right!? Wow, I'm honestly surprised it's that low. As an American, I totally would have expected it to be at least double that, but most likely more. I haven't had a kid yet, but my wife had outpatient surgery a couple of years ago to remove a cyst. I hung out in the waiting room and we were out of there before lunchtime. Our insurance was billed nearly $100,000. We (thankfully) have good insurance (tied to my employer, of course), and we hit our annual out-of-pocket max with that one operation.
markx2 4y ago
There are two points here. 1. The actual cost 2. What is charged As a father of two here in the UK and one birth requiring serious surgery I have no clue at all what the cost was. Why? Because our National Health Service did not send me a bill because the charge was zero. Cost? All the medical staff were going to be paid anyway, all equipment was there and powered on, all drugs used were already budgeted for. So the 'cost' was all part of the service.

kodyo 4y ago

No. Some of us aren’t communists and would rather have less government control over our lives.

kodyo 4y ago
Now watch the communists downvote me.
- nh23423fefe 4y ago
  you dont know what a communist is
  - kodyo 4y ago
    A good enough start would be someone who sees an humane act of community and brotherhood by a Christian minister, and their response is that the state should confiscate everybody's money to pay for it after laundering it through bureaucracy instead. Most of us aren't communists.
    - uni_rule 4y ago
      Those god-forsaken Canadian communists.
    - nh23423fefe 4y ago
      Don't repeat lies over and over to try to make a point.
- RileyJames 4y ago
  You should really write down a list of countries in which the government passes on the full cost of childbirth to a citizen. See what the anti-communist block looks like these days. You’re going to hate this: Not only does Australia and New Zealand cover the full cost, all with tax payer money. They then take even MORE tax payer money and give it to the parents as a thank you for having a child. And when you find out that a tax credit and ‘handing out tax payer money’ are the same deal, you’re going to flip.[1] https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax-credit https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax...
trs8080 4y ago
Better it be private corporations who jack up prices and whose sole motive is profit.