The estimated cost of delivery alone is $6,000 – $8,000 for a low risk pregnancy, and the cost increases if it is a high risk pregnancy.
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/planningandpreparing/affordablehealthcare.html
the personal cost of birth control ranges from $10 to $100 or more a month
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/04/14/contraception-cost-birth-control-pills-craigslist/
You do the math.
“... which equals $180 to $600 a year!”
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the government certainly isn’t going to make this cheaper or more efficient. so it will be the high side of 500.
so i will try some math.
(how many woman use it? i don’t know. 50 million plus?)
$500 x 50,000,000 = 25,000,000,000
each year.
if it is so much cheaper and better than being pregnant,
then let them find a way to pay themselves.
free market works. if that is done, the costs WILL go down.
you could make the same argument, for many things.
AIDS costs a LOT to treat. condoms can prevent it.
so the taxpayers should pay for free condoms for ALL gays.
...well, i believe the more we return to personal responsibility, the better. the government has no right to take MY money, and give to someone else, for THEIR voluntary choices.
that is wrong, immoral, and UNAMERICAN !
I had my first child late last year. The total statement from the hospital was about $12,000 and I had a very easy, healthy pregnancy. I had to laugh that they charged us $700/night for my son’s ‘room stay.’ I guess that little plastic rolling cart is pricey! :)
Thankfully we have insurance, but still had to pay some bills. But the price is staggering if you are uninsured. A $3 condom or $20 birth control pills per month sure is a lot cheaper.
Can’t say I care, it is not anyone else’s responsibility to pay for anyone’s child birth or birth control.
Indeed from the point of view of our civilization we should be banning birth control due to our low birth rates effects on our future economic prosperity. To Say nothing of our survival as a federation.
Insolently nobody has to pay 6k to 8k for a delivery, there is still such a thing as home delivery and other private options. The fact that our hospitals milk parents to be to pay for the risks our lawyers forced them to assume is anther aspect of Government induced economic price control failure.