[cripplecreek]

I was wrong. My mother says the total hospital bill for my delivery was $80 in 1964.

[Waywardson]

That is $2,800 in today’s dollars. FYI

[raybbr]

When I was born in 64 the total cost was only a couple hundred dollars.

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I was wrong. My mother says the total hospital bill for my delivery was $80 in 1964.

Did you have to yell up from the basement?

:^0)

[RobinOfKingston]

I have, laying between my arms as I type, a hospital bill incurred by my Aunt in August of 1937. She was treated for appendicitis.

10 days at $4.00 per day, $40.00
Operating room, $15.00
Anesthesia, $10.00
Lab tests, $5.00
Medicines, $2.80
Total, $72.80

Unfortunately, the doctor’s and anesthesiologist’s bills did not survive in our family archives, so I don’t know what they were.

My Aunt lived 45 more years, so the care, at least in this case, was as good then as it is now.

[Bellflower]

I was wrong. My mother says the total hospital bill for my delivery was $80 in 1964.

And back then she likely stayed in the hospital for quite some time. Does she remember how long?

[jmacusa]

$80 bucks well spent, doncha’ think?