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Finland's healthcare system has helped give it the lowest maternal death rate in the world -- and it's available to everyone for next to nothing.Dr. Aydin Tekay is the chief physician at a labor ward in Finland where every mother there gets a private room and even the option of a water birth. The cost? Less than $100 euros, and almost 50 percent of which they'll get back as reimbursement. That means it costs less than $60 to have a baby, compared with the U.S. where the average natural birth costs over $12,000 and insurance doesn't cover all of it. Tekay said there's no reason the U.S. can't replicate what Finland is doing. He blames U.S. politics.The maternal death rate in the U.S. has nearly doubled over the last three decades; in Finland they've cut it in half.
QuoteThe maternal death rate in the U.S. has nearly doubled over the last three decades; in Finland they've cut it in half.
The maternal death rate in the U.S. has nearly doubled over the last three decades; in Finland they've cut it in half.