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Giving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won't tell you how much.
Vox
A Vox reporter tries to learn what his son's birth would cost before it happens and fails, showing how opaque US hospital pricing is even for the most common procedure.
HN cites it as the go-to example of how impossible it is to get prices in advance for US medical care.
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