For what it's worth, I think parents here generally pay something like 2000-3000 dollars out of their own purse for births (without complications), though if I'm not mistaken that does include a significantly longer stay in the hospital after birth than in the US (which one might argue is not really strictly necessary in a large majority of cases). Socialized medicine certainly doesn't always mean that the taxpayer funds everything - few countries with socialized medicine would implement something like Medicare. Which brings us back to the American system having some of the worst elements of both worlds. But even among the radical Republicans, few have the guts to take on Medicare frontally...