"The royal birth cost $15,000. The average American birth is billed at $30,000." [View all]

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The royal birth cost $15,000. The average American birth is billed at $30,000.

By Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/23/the-royal-birth-cost-15000-the-average-american-birth-is-billed-at-30000/

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The $15,000 figure comes from estimates of how much one would have to pay to deliver in the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital, where the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a son on Monday. This is expensive for the United Kingdom, but, here in the United States, it would actually be a pretty great deal!

“The average total price charged for pregnancy and newborn care was about $30,000 for a vaginal delivery and $50,000 for a C-section,” Rosenthal reported, “with commercial insurers paying out an average of $18,329 and $27,866.” That data comes from a Truven Analytics report that recently looked at the high cost of pregnancy in the United States.



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