Quote Originally Posted by knight0334 View Post

My birth in 1972 cost my parents $386. ...and mom needed 2 days in-patient recovery. Dad borrowed the money from his aunt, which he had paid back well before my brother was born 2.5 years to the day.
When I got 6 stitches on the top of my head at 5yrs old, it cost $20 for the ER visit. Fast forward a few years and one of my kids cut his head open, and they used superglue to close it. $5000 for that trip. So glad that we have affordable healthcare in the US.