Socialized healthcare in the UK is working, as long as you don’t mind delivering your baby in the restroom
Posted by AWB in ObamaAmazing. From Mail Online
Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.
Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.
One woman gave birth in a lift while being transferred to a labour ward from A&E while another gave birth in a corridor, said East Cheshire NHS Trust.
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These numbers are useless without context. The linked article mentions a lump-sum number of “4,000″ as the number of women put out by shortages, etc. But what the linked article also fails to mention (one can only assume conveniently?) is “out of how many”. 4,000 out of 100,000 is one thing, but 4,000 out of 1,000,000 is quite different.
The UK has a documented population (per The Google) of 60,943,912. The birth rate, as of 2008, per CIA.GOV, is 10.65/1000, or about 650,000 births per year.
So we’re saying that the UK has a 99.4% success rate at getting people in the right place at the right time for a birth? Now, I’m not (at all) a fan of socialized medicine, but that’s not entirely “traumatic” in terms of percentages, and certainly nothing to get bent out of shape over.