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How much it cost to have a baby in America (Tennessee)

- Ultrasound “cost us $2,067.85”

- Hospital stay observation room $413.65

- The recovery room cost us $2,702.45

- “A hospital stay, I don't know how that's different, but that one cost us $4,438

- The emergency room cost us $1,932.90

- Laboratory, that cost us an additional $1,439.20

- Then we go into labor and delivery — we got charged $10,593.40

- Then our anesthesia. So my epidural cost us more than anything else. That one was $14,446.15

- Pharmacy cost $3,007.25

- “Supplies cost $565.03”

So the grand total for everything came out to $33,011.73. But that was just for our stay. We also had to pay for Aspen, our newborn daughter, to be in the hospital.

- her hospital stay to stay with us in the room that we also paid for was $4,008

Our complete hospital bill cost $37,019.73

“Was it worth it? Yes. — Yes. It was worth every penny, but she was an expensive baby. It's a lot of money.”

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Super Fresh 8mo ago

There's no way any of these things should cost that much, we need free markets in medicine and healthcare again.

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