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When Sally Richardson was born in 1933, St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington charged her parents $25. Richardson still has the bill. Her father, a lawyer, kept it with his office files. Seventy years later, a birth costs more than $3,000 in hospital charges alone.
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A MOVING TARGET
When Sally Richardson was born in 1933, St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington charged her parents $25. Richardson still has the bill. Her father, a lawyer, kept it with his office files. Seventy years later, a birth costs more than $3,000 in hospital charges alone.
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