Miscers With Kids, How Much Was Your Hospital Bill?

[LuigiMiami631]

I am seeing to have a kid in California, it costs:

California is among the most expensive states to deliver a child, according to a report from Fair Health.

As of 2022, the median cost of having a cesarean section outside of your insurance network in California was nearly $50,000.

For in-network providers, the cost of a C-section in the Golden State was about $20,000.

For those who deliver naturally, in-network child delivery services cost around $16,500 in California and out-of-network deliveries had a median cost of nearly $36,000.

https://ktla.com/news/california/thi...in-california/

How in the flying fuk are these people affording kids.

[r32gojirra]

Paid AUD$500 excess because we opted into a private hospital with our choice of obstetrician and private room

I have no idea what the actual cost was with anaesthetists and midwives and etc etc but why the **** would I care, I live in a first world country with universal healthcare

[Peacening]

My woman doesn't fuk with hospitals by choice so for our first kid all we paid was 6k for a private birth center and $2k for a doula. Our baby came out 2 months early though so they could not deliver her there-- had to go to a hospital for a week and then she finally went into labor, and kiddo had to stay in the hospital for 3 more weeks under observation. Bill was well over $1m but she was on Medical since we weren't married (on paper she was technically single and unemployed) at the time and it cost us exactly $0.

Baby #2 was delivered at home and it cost us $8-9k to have a midwife do all her prenatal care, the delivery itself, and follow up care.


Baby #3 has not happened yet but I might bust a fat load inside this sloot tonight so I will keep you posted

[24hrPharmacy]

I think like $3K? Private hospital in Australia. Public hospital is free... wife didn't want to side with degenerates so we paid for private room with garden view, queen bed, proper food, 40 inch TV, bathroom etc.

[4everalone]

Lol at paying for private hospital.

Send her to public hospital for free instead.
Doctors, midwives, nurses there are just as good.
Who cares about the view or food options. She is there to give birth, not go on vacation.

I didnt get wrecked by taxes my whole life to pay out of pocket for services paid by tax money.

[EireGunner]

bloody hell...less than half of that for everything

California is pissening

[DesiredUserphag]

Reason #174017057147097113701666894

[wasp9166]

Thanx Joe

Migrants beating up NYPD lol

In my day NYPD and lapd handed you your ass

And you took it like a man

Gota pay for Mexicans

And Ugandans

And terrorists

And cartel pushers

And rapists

And murderers

And ms13

One solution

Trump

[FelixTheCat1919]

My woman doesn't fuk with hospitals by choice so for our first kid all we paid was 6k for a private birth center and $2k for a doula. Our baby came out 2 months early though so they could not deliver her there-- had to go to a hospital for a week and then she finally went into labor, and kiddo had to stay in the hospital for 3 more weeks under observation. Bill was well over $1m but she was on Medical since we weren't married (on paper she was technically single and unemployed) at the time and it cost us exactly $0.

Baby #2 was delivered at home and it cost us $8-9k to have a midwife do all her prenatal care, the delivery itself, and follow up care.


Baby #3 has not happened yet but I might bust a fat load inside this sloot tonight so I will keep you posted

and almost all of that would have been close to scott free if you weren't hippies and just used insurance at a hospital like normal people. I will never understand hipsters who place importance on birthing outside of hospitals. It is one of the weirdest, most pointless hills to die on lol

[Kewbrah]

Americans when will they learn

[kusok]

Zero

People pay for this???

[teodorkanev1]

Americans when will they learn

srsly what the actual crap? A C-section in most of Europe costs nothing or like an extra 200euro or something. LMAO @ 50k for giving birth. LMAO at even paying 1 euro.

just fkin LOL at paying for ambulances, giving birth, x-rays or a checkup. Why are you even paying insurance every month if you still have to pay for hospital chit?

why you even paying taxes if you still have to pay for public universities(symbolic taxes excluded)?

why you even paying taxes if you get no fkin return on your investment?

why you even amerimaxxing at this point?

[FelixTheCat1919]

Zero

People pay for this???

It's exlusively hipsters who "don't believe in hospital births" and people with really bad/no health insurance who get stuck with real bills for a birth.

srsly what the actual crap? A C-section in most of Europe costs nothing or like an extra 200euro or something. LMAO @ 50k for giving birth. LMAO at even paying 1 euro.

just fkin LOL at paying for ambulances, giving birth, x-rays or a checkup. Why are you even paying insurance every month if you still have to pay for hospital chit?

why you even paying taxes if you still have to pay for public universities(symbolic taxes excluded)?

why you even paying taxes if you get no fkin return on your investment?

why you even amerimaxxing at this point?

You pay for all of that chit in your taxes. People in America only pay big bucks for births if they are hipsters who refuse to use hospitals for them (insurance isn't gonna cover a hipster birth intentionally planned and performed outside of a hospital), and people with the worst of the worst insurance plans.

The dirt poor here either already have Medicaid or state insurance, or they just refuse to pay and the taxpayers/paying customers (including insurance companies) foot the bills via increased prices for everyone else.

[teodorkanev1]

It's exlusively hipsters who "don't believe in hospital births" and people with really bad/no health insurance who get stuck with real bills for a birth.






You pay for all of that chit in your taxes. People in America only pay big bucks for births if they are hipsters who refuse to use hospitals for them (insurance isn't gonna cover a hipster birth intentionally planned and performed outside of a hospital), and people with the worst of the worst insurance plans.

The dirt poor here either already have Medicaid or state insurance, or they just refuse to pay and the taxpayers/paying customers (including insurance companies) foot the bills via increased prices for everyone else.

But if the most basic Medicaid plan covers chit like ambulances, birth, etc. - why are people even complaining about the asinine costs of healthcare in the US? Why am I hearing hilarious anecdotes of people too pussy to call an ambulance for fear of debt?

[Harry362]

My woman doesn't fuk with hospitals by choice so for our first kid all we paid was 6k for a private birth center and $2k for a doula. Our baby came out 2 months early though so they could not deliver her there-- had to go to a hospital for a week and then she finally went into labor, and kiddo had to stay in the hospital for 3 more weeks under observation. Bill was well over $1m but she was on Medical since we weren't married (on paper she was technically single and unemployed) at the time and it cost us exactly $0.

Baby #2 was delivered at home and it cost us $8-9k to have a midwife do all her prenatal care, the delivery itself, and follow up care.


Baby #3 has not happened yet but I might bust a fat load inside this sloot tonight so I will keep you posted

Birth center? Congrats on being a complete ****ing imbecile

[GooBaaa]

Drop your income to below 32k and hop on that welfare insurance

[IPoopStandingUp]

Insurance covered it

[teodorkanev1]

We paid more for the stem cell/cord collection service which we now pay an annual storage fee on. Rest was covered by insurance. Copay was higher than I would have thought $500, considering our ER copay is only $100, but still cheap in grand scheme of things. Other than the stem cell service, I think the next biggest extra expense was the hospital photo service, they know they got you by the balls. And honestly they came out great/cute.

that sounds cool actually, do they have a shelf life even? And does the FDA approve stem cell therapies in the US?

[TXBuddy]

Zero. Insurance paid.

[OneLegSquats]

Free because I don't live in a 3rd world country

[IAMBEE]

$7500 with insurance back a little over 5 years ago.