US Hospital Birth Costs Are Impossible to Get in Advance
Vox · Explainer · 8 min · 2016 · YouTube title: Giving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won't tell you how much.
Why it's here
HN cites it as the go-to example of how impossible it is to get prices in advance for US medical care.
What it covers
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.