• @blue9yun@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It can be <$6,000 cash and I wouldn’t be surprised.

    This is the figure I once heard:

    Delivering a baby with awesome health care plan: $12,000, you pay $2,000 (of course you pay more monthly for having this plan)

    With mediocre health care plan: $8,000 and you pay $3,000

    Without health care plan: $4,000 and you pay all of it.

    The same $4,000 care is priced based on how much money they can get from you (or your plan)

    Same delivery

    • @moistclump@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      How do poor people afford to have babies? Double whammy given the statistically higher number of babies and limited birth control options for lower incomes.

      • kase
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        31 year ago

        Oh ho, just wait till you hear about the costs of raising a child!

        but seriously, that’s a good question, and I have no idea 🙃