Watch: Why is a baby so expensive in the United States?

New mothers everywhere on social networks break their hospital bills incredibly expensive after childbirth. So why is childbirth so expensive in the United States? And given the anti-abortion policies of the Trump administration, pro-natalists, does something on the table make a child more affordable?
Video producer KFF Health News, Hannah Norman, spoke with Stephanie Hastings, doctor and assistant program director at Cambridge Health Alliance, and Malini Nijagal, an OB-GYN and clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco.
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