(Cost of bringing my children into the world was about £10 - the petrol, the parking, and I bought a chocolate bar and bottle of water at one point)
Why does America stand for it?
Not picking a fight here, just curious: another person commented on my original post noting that when I said my first birth didn't cost us anything, that wasn't true - my wife's employer paid a fair amount for her insurance.
Are your taxes broken out in the UK? Do you know how much you pay a year for healthcare?
However my parents, gran, and my mother in law combined pay under $1000 a year between them.
On the other hand a premiership footballer pays about $250,000 a year for health. Plus their own private health care costs of whatever. That's the price they pay for living in our society though, a society where people aren't afraid to go to the doctors to check out that mole, or rush to give birth because they can't afford an extra day in hospital.