"The real cost is doctors, even with private health cover min...

"The real cost is doctors, even with private health cover min $90 a visit, $350 per ultrasound, multivitamins, and the $1800 fee to secure a room once you hit 23 weeks. After 4k of doctors bills you hit the medicare threshold and start getting 80% cash back."

Where did you get those costs blowy? I agree they are costs on the system but when my son was born it cost us nothing at all and we spent a week in hospital after my sons birth all on public health. Everyone I know that has private health got their equivalent from the public system but then paid extras due to having private rooms, doctor of choice etc.