Public Health Care not working out so well for 4000 British Mothers
As Rush Limbaugh said on the air today, forget about death panels, Great Britain has birth panels. Here’s the story from the Daily Mail: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.
Rationing of all types is an inevitable result of any public health option. No other result can come from it. The effects can be seen in every aspect of public health care. It is seen in child birth, it is seen at the dentist, and it is seen in therapeutic care. And yes, it will be seen in something (call it something…)