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I know that there probably isn’t a short, easy way of answering this, but I’m curious. I’m an Australian and lately I’ve seen a lot of questions relating to insurance and payment plans for having a baby in the USA. Here in Aus, the only thing you have to pay for is elective procedures when it comes to pregnancy. 3D scans, nuchal fold tests (Downs Syndrome tests) and amnios solely for the purpose of finding out the sex of the child are considered elective. Confirmation of pregnancy scans, 20 week scans, and any scans that doctors perform to check the growth of the child etc. when there is concern are performed for free. Midwives and birthing clinics in public hospitals are provided for free. Checkups with said Midwives are free (usually one a month until the last trimester, then 2 a month until the last month when you meet them weekly). Gestational diabetes tests are performed for free.Your stay in a public hospital or birthing centre/clinic (often both are in the same hospital) is provided for free. Obviously if you go into a private hospital there are fees involved, most people will have private health insurance to cover that sort of thing, but it costs more to give birth in a private hospital with health insurance than it does to give birth in a public hospital with no insurance here. The perks are private rooms etc, longer in hospital stays if you want them etc.
I’m giving all this info because I’m genuinely curious as to what sort of fees are involved with having a baby in the USA. It would definately help me when it comes to me answering other people’s questions!
Lol the weather here is great, we’re in the middle of summer. We did just have a 3 day run of around 113f weather though… Hottest summer on record for a while! Lol.
Thanks for the info guys, it really does help. I had thought that things were expensive over there when it came to having babies, but I hadn’t realised HOW expensive. This medicade that you speak of sounds like our Medicare, only Medicare is available to everyone in Australia regardless of wage status.
I would also like to give a comparison, my husband and I have paid probably around $300 for this pregnancy so far because we did the elective downs syndrome test, and also small fees involved with our GP that sound like our version of your “co-pay”. Many doctors don’t have these fees, and I could have avoided them if I’d chosen to go to a different doc, but I like mine so I stayed with them lol. And something else that my DH just pointed out that I’d forgotten to mention, in Australia we get given $5000 after we have a baby (obviously if you have twins, you get $10,000 and so on) as a way of helping you get everything set up for that child. Does the USA have anything similar?
can someone help me figure this out … i researched it but still no luck ..please i would really appreciate it!
Compare and contrast the ideas of heat and temperature. Explain how one affects the others and why they are not the same thing.