The high cost of giving birth in the U.S.

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Giving birth in the United States is far more expensive than in other countries, and the additional cost does not appear to come with additional benefits -- Americans do not have more access to care or better access to care than citizens in other developed nations, according to an analysis from the New York Times.

“It’s not primarily that we get a different bundle of services when we have a baby,” Gerard Anderson, an economist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health who studies international health costs, told the Times. “It’s that we pay individually for each service and pay more for the services we receive.”

This is an unusual model among other countries, as the Times notes:

Kim Kardashian gives birth to baby girl

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:43:00 +0000

Kimye has given birth to a baby girl, gossip site TMZ reports.

According to the Daily Mail, the 32-year-old reality star checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and went into labor on June 15. The daughter is the first child for both Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West, whose album "Yeezus" will be officially released this week.

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The high cost of giving birth in the U.S.

Kim Kardashian gives birth to baby girl