Hospital bill from 1955 sparks outrage over childbirth costs in the US today

A 1955 hospital bill that revealed it cost less than $60 for a three-night stay to deliver a baby has shocked Americans who have become accustomed to being charged exorbitant amounts for childbirth.

Last month, a Reddit user who goes by the username @BinaryPeach uploaded a photo of the hospital bill to the platform, where they revealed that the invoice was from the December 1955 birth of their medical school professor in a Kansas hospital.

“My medical school professor showed me this bill from his birth in 1955 (in the United States),” the caption reads.