Bearishgurl, so you’re saying that people should be forced into having two-working-parent families by overly high insurance premiums?
Remember that child-care is ALSO expensive. If this enables more families to have only one breadwinner (or causes families to have both parents working less than full time), this can only be a good thing. Americans work too much, too hard as it is. We should be more like the French.
(The economic problems in France come from other sources, like the difficulty of firing bad employees.)