如果你今年有生育的打算,你应该清楚生育的大致成本。与生活中的主要支出一样,生育成本取决于你生活在哪里。FAIR Health的育儿成本跟踪器(Cost of Giving Birth Tracker)显示,在美国,顺产的中位数成本为12,968.44美元,剖腹产的中位数成本为15,555.61美元。
FAIR Health是一家位于纽约的非营利组织,致力于提高医疗成本透明度。其数据中包含了分娩(如用药、护理、产房、医疗和手术用品、孕妇食宿等)、麻醉、胎儿无应激试验、超声波检查、实验室工作和吸奶器等成本。
医院系统内顺产中位数自费成本最高的州是阿拉斯加州,成本为21,525.77美元,其次是纽约州、新泽西州、康涅狄格州和马萨诸塞州。医院系统内顺产中位数自费成本最低的州是阿拉巴马州,成本为7,840.62美元,其次是路易斯安纳州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州。
阿拉斯加州也是医院系统内剖腹产中位数成本最高的州,成本为25,518.63美元,中位数成本最低的阿拉巴马州只有8,913.31美元。
生育成本高涨,导致许多人正在考虑放弃建立家庭。正如《财富》杂志之前的报道显示,2015年的一项研究估计,考虑到教育、社会阶级背景和人口统计等指标后,背负60,000美元学生债务的女性生育的可能性,比无债务的同类女性低42%。随着学生贷款债务增加,生育率持续下降,这为未来的人口老龄化和劳动力减少埋下了隐患。
社会学家阿里耶勒·库珀伯格在2月对《财富》杂志称:“经济状况逐渐变成了你只能拥有一件东西,不能拥有一切。组建家庭、实现经济安全、取得大学学位或没有太多债务,你只能做到其中的某一项或两项。”(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
如果你今年有生育的打算,你应该清楚生育的大致成本。与生活中的主要支出一样,生育成本取决于你生活在哪里。FAIR Health的育儿成本跟踪器(Cost of Giving Birth Tracker)显示,在美国,顺产的中位数成本为12,968.44美元,剖腹产的中位数成本为15,555.61美元。
FAIR Health是一家位于纽约的非营利组织,致力于提高医疗成本透明度。其数据中包含了分娩(如用药、护理、产房、医疗和手术用品、孕妇食宿等)、麻醉、胎儿无应激试验、超声波检查、实验室工作和吸奶器等成本。
医院系统内顺产中位数自费成本最高的州是阿拉斯加州,成本为21,525.77美元,其次是纽约州、新泽西州、康涅狄格州和马萨诸塞州。医院系统内顺产中位数自费成本最低的州是阿拉巴马州,成本为7,840.62美元,其次是路易斯安纳州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州。
阿拉斯加州也是医院系统内剖腹产中位数成本最高的州,成本为25,518.63美元,中位数成本最低的阿拉巴马州只有8,913.31美元。
生育成本高涨,导致许多人正在考虑放弃建立家庭。正如《财富》杂志之前的报道显示,2015年的一项研究估计,考虑到教育、社会阶级背景和人口统计等指标后,背负60,000美元学生债务的女性生育的可能性,比无债务的同类女性低42%。随着学生贷款债务增加,生育率持续下降,这为未来的人口老龄化和劳动力减少埋下了隐患。
社会学家阿里耶勒·库珀伯格在2月对《财富》杂志称:“经济状况逐渐变成了你只能拥有一件东西,不能拥有一切。组建家庭、实现经济安全、取得大学学位或没有太多债务,你只能做到其中的某一项或两项。”(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
If you’re planning to give birth this year, it may be helpful to know roughly how much it’ll cost you. As with many of life’s biggest expenses, the price depends on where you live. According to FAIR Health’s Cost of Giving Birth Tracker, the national median allowed value for in-network vaginal delivery is $12,968.44 and $15,555.61 for a C-section.
Data from FAIR Health, a New York–based nonprofit that promotes health care cost transparency, accounted for the delivery itself (e.g., pharmacy, nursery, labor and delivery room, medical and surgical supplies, room and board for the mother), anesthesia, fetal nonstress tests, ultrasounds, laboratory work, and breast pump.
The state with the highest median allowed in-network amount for vaginal deliveries is Alaska at $21,525.77, followed closely by New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The state with the lowest median allowed in-network cost for vaginal deliveries was Alabama at $7,840.62, followed by Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Alaska also had the highest median allowed in-network amount for C-sections at $25,518.63, whereas Alabama was the lowest at $8,913.31.
The cost of childbirth is so high that many people are considering forgoing starting families altogether. As previously reported in Fortune, a 2015 study estimated that women with $60,000 in student debt were 42% less likely to have children than their non-indebted peers, after controlling for education, class background, and demographic indicators. As student loan debt increases, birth rates continue to fall—setting the stage for an aging population and a smaller workforce in years to come.
“It's increasingly become an economic situation where you can have one thing, but not all the things,” sociologist Arielle Kuperberg told Fortune back in February. “Family, economic security, a college degree, or not a lot of debt—you can only get one or two of those.”