Y'all need to fix your health care system! This is shocking. I live in Finland and I struggle to understand this. They are ripping you off because that price has nothing to do with the actual cost of the procedure or your stay at the hospital. They estimated that giving birth here costs the municipality from 1000 to 4500 euros depending on how it goes (C-section or not). I think we pay per day (which is standard a fee if you end up in the hospital). The maximum cost is at 683 euros. 1 euro is 1,21 dollars.

F**k the US healthcare system.

Our entire healthcare system is so messed up.

Given how insane 'healthcare' in America is, I'm a little surprised that Midwives aren't more common, a fraction of the cost I'm sure and you're in the comfort of your own home, the use of Midwives in countries like Australia and New Zealand is very common and if there is an emergency, there would be little to no costs involved due to their, actually does work, Universal Healthcare. Comments from people who say that you should prepare for costs because that's what having children means, clearly don't have children, there is a big difference between being able to afford to raise your child and being stuck with a hospital bill in the thousands/hundreds of thousands just for giving birth.

America! The land where the beggar shares a street corner with a Doctor, a Lawyer and an Insurer all with their greedy hands out asking for more and telling the beggar he is disgusting

In the UK, I paid nothing at all.

My wife had our daughter in the new Christchurch Womans. Difficulties ensued. Emergency C section. Intensive care in the natal ward. Costs? Not even parking as the hospital gave me a pass. If a modest town in New Zealand can do this and then give my wife 6 months paid leave, surely the USA can. Should mention these are big rooms on our own looking over a park.

Nothing. Just 10€ per day when I got a "mothers' room" in the hospitag because my son had to stay at the neo for a few days. And we got gifts.

My youngest had to be rushed to the NICU due to him having dangerously low blood sugar levels. Toothless cost $0. Why? Because I live in Canada. Wake up USA!!!

I'm sorry for the more than idiotic healthcare system in the USA. On the other side, Americans aren't doing anything to change the system. Biden even was told to drop this issue during his campaign or he wouldn't have any chance of winning the election. So as far as I'm concerned Americans can keep complaining about their healthcare and tell other people that they live in socialist shyteholes with their affordable healthcare BECAUSE YOU PAY 85% TAXES!!! (Shots in the air). In the end Americans are going to have to solve that problem by voting for the people that would commit to solve it, not for those who seek ways to make it even less accessible and affordable.

I spent 8 weeks in a private room in a maternity ward in the UK due to pregnancy complications Two whole months. I had fantastic care by midwives, nurses, ultrasound technicians, and obgyns. With at least 10 staff including 2 pediatricians in the delivery room, I gave birth to healthy twins, one of whom needed a short stay in the Special Care Baby Unit. Cost to our family: £0. Not one penny for a 2 month hospital stay. The only expense we had was parking when my husband came to visit. I will never understand why Americans allow insurance companies to manipulate them into believing socialized health care is a bad thing.

3 weeks in the hospital, emergency C-section, baby was 4 days in NICU and 6 days at the hospital after that. 650€ all together. Paid in full 2 weeks after released from the hospital. Finland.

Czech republic here - zero payments for the medical care (we all have insuranc eand everybody can afford it), it means no payments for giving birth. And, if the mom has low income, she can apply for a maternity grant that covers all necessary purchases at the beginning so the baby has all it needs

Belgian here. The hospital bill (birth with epidural, 3 nights in a spacious single room) for the birth of each of our sons was about 1 500 euro (after government funded insurance). After my wife's private insurance (which costs some 165 euro per year) there was 300 euro left. It should be noted that the government of Flanders (northern Belgium) gives a birth premium of 1 100 euro per child, so both the births were actually "financially positive" for about 800 euro. Several visits at home by a midwife before and after birth were also covered. Checkups with ultrasound at the gynaecologist were about 30 euro each. Belgium's government has many flaws, but I'm glad with the social security system.

Defending the U.S. Healthcare system is the epitome of Brainwashing.

things i learned from this: 1. kids are expensive 2. go to the UK or germany to have a kid and 3. you have to be rich if ya can't do number two

What this really does is grow disgust in the American medical system. Sometimes there are great people working for it and then magically it costs money. Serious money. The sad thing is Biden really cannot fix that.