Glorious British health care system lets father know joy of delivering his own child

LOL!

Paramedics arrived as the baby’s head was coming out – but [the husband] was doing such a good job they supervised him until baby Emily was born at 11am.

This guy should team up with the self-taught dentist (14 extractions)and take their show on the road.
“Have Pliers and Hot Towels, will travel”.

think if we ever have hillarycare you will see a large amount of private hospitals pop up. Instead of paying monthly into health insurance people will start paying monthy for private healthcare in these places

offroadaz on October 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM

I’m already seeing private emergency clinics cropping up in the Houston area. They only accept private insurance, no medicade, medicare etc. Cash or insurance. The wait time is next to nothing on a Saturday night, as I can attest to having had to take one of the kiddos there recently. Not an illegal in the place either!

I’ll prostitute my self to pay for private insurance if I have to choose between that or hillary care.

You should take your childbirth prep scare class with a big helping of salt.

Since when is childbirth a medical emergency? I’m the last guy to stand up for socialized medicine, but this thread did not “go wrong”. What’s wrong with healthcare in this country, and one of the roots of healthcare entitlement, is the aura of superiority and fear that doctors have instilled in our society re: our own precious health.

15k to have a baby. That’s whats wrong with healthcare.

You should go take one of those “childbirth preparation” classes that most local hospitals give for expectant parents. They’ll tell you enough horror stories that you’ll take home birth right off the table.

Did this hospital know, when they turned them away, that the umbilical cord wasn’t wrapped around the baby’s neck, as sometimes happens? Nope. In short, these parents got lucky. Doesn’t always work out that way, which is why infant mortality in Third World countries is so high.

OK, well, maybe not everything.

I hope that baby’s okay – the photo isn’t very reassuring.
Dork B. on October 17, 2007 at 7:20 PM

Yep, support that poor baby’s neck.

If you want to look at so-called socialized medicine that works fairly well, at least compared to the UK system, look at Denmark’s. No, it’s not perfect but having experienced both the US and the danish system, I prefer the danish. I’ll agree the waiting lists aren’t fun but in my family’s case, I have two sons with special needs and I couldn’t afford the decent care we get here in DK if we lived in the states. Same goes for their fantastic schools.

For birth situations, there are midwives at the hospital and the doctors only get involved in emergencies. Home birth is also an option but the hospital situation was quite good. The doctors, midwives and nurses all share a professional respect and courtesy I don’t really remember seeing in the states. It’s a nice change.

It’s not as scary as some think. There are also private hospitals here, so of course, those who can pay, will go there if they choose.

Anything to dance with sweet lady V-i-c-o-d-i-n again. Anything…

Careful. Ya dance too long and she turns mean and won’t let you stop.

Insert wire Q into chest cavity R and push Q into ventricle T with left hand Y while adjusting pulse rate S on device M with right hand X.

Sounds simple.

HILLNET EVIL REDISTRIBUTION SUPERCOMPUTER (HERS):

Status Report: Citizen #457,867 just pushed out of Citizen #301,230. Preparing Annual Rationing sheet. Insufficient funds. Recommendation: Increase taxes and streamline abortions queue, partial-birth preferable for immediate results.

BKennedy on October 17, 2007 at 7:10 PM

Nice. I see that developing into a nice inside joke during the general.

This thread went wrong. The point is that nobody knows when the real emergency will hit. This guy was lucky,some of you were. Not everyone is. Poor quality and access issues plague state health plans. Ask a municipal worker how much he/she likes gov’t insurance where the choice of doctors is few, reimbursements are low, and the face time is non-existent.

JiangxiDad on October 17, 2007 at 8:31 PM

You are 100% correct, Dad, and I started it. I winced when I saw my comment that I so flippantly posted, and have been worrying about it ever since. What happened to this family, being turned away from the hospital, seems so unbelievable…and yet, could be a part of our lives in, oh, say, 2009.

For this child, at least some good-natured paramedics showed up. For their next child, maybe even that is gone.

Emily’s country is rocketing into the abyss, and over here in our country, and calculating pit viper and her criminal cabal is twitching to tip us in as well.

I think if we ever have hillarycare you will see a large amount of private hospitals pop up. Instead of paying monthly into health insurance people will start paying monthy for private healthcare in these places

offroadaz on October 17, 2007 at 7:18 PM

That will not be allowed, the ruling class will have their own quality hospital. The masses will be stuck with junk.

If Hillary gets her way with her big government solution to health care, then American fathers could experience this as well. A mom-to-be in Britain was turned away twice from……

jdpaz on October 17, 2007 at 7:35 PM

That’s not quite what I was referring to. :P

Yes, I’m glad we have highly trained doctors for true emergencies, but people shouldn’t be using doctors for “health care.” God gave us brains for a reason, and in this glorious age of Google, there’s no excuse for being ignorant, and no reason to blindly trust your doc on anything.

Anyway, in rationed systems like Britain and Canada, the nonsense at hospitals must be ten times worse, which is hard to imagine.