Comments on: NHS: 4,000 BABIES BORN IN LIFTS & RESTROOMS http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: johnson http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444634 johnson Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:56:32 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444634 I thought "single payer" meant private healthcare providers <i>funded</i> by the gov't, but the UK uses actually government-run healthcare providers (hospitals, e.g., which are the subject of this post)? Is that not right? I thought “single payer” meant private healthcare providers funded by the gov’t, but the UK uses actually government-run healthcare providers (hospitals, e.g., which are the subject of this post)? Is that not right?

]]> By: wd http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444618 wd Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:53:51 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444618 Marc, What's your point? Marc,

What’s your point?

]]> By: wd http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444617 wd Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:51:52 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-444617 johnson, Yes, you are missing something. Obama, Barney Frank, Jan Schakowski and others have all said they favor a "single-payer" system--which, as you well know, is what they have in the U.K. And many of them believe that a "public plan" is the first step toward getting there. johnson,

Yes, you are missing something. Obama, Barney Frank, Jan Schakowski and others have all said they favor a “single-payer” system–which, as you well know, is what they have in the U.K. And many of them believe that a “public plan” is the first step toward getting there.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-443524 Marc Brown Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:00:15 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-443524 The United States ranks 41st in the world for maternal mortality, with 1 in 4,800 women dying from pregnancy complications. The U.S. was tied with the eastern European country of Belarus and just above Serbia and Montenegro. 2007 figures. M. The United States ranks 41st in the world for maternal mortality, with 1 in 4,800 women dying from pregnancy complications. The U.S. was tied with the eastern European country of Belarus and just above Serbia and Montenegro.

2007 figures.

M.

]]> By: johnson http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-443387 johnson Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:42:26 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/28/nhs-4000-babies-born-in-lifts-restrooms/#comment-443387 This is probably a good place to point out that, unless I'm missing something, no one serious is proposing that the US adopt a system like Britain's or Canada's. The health reform plans that are on the table are not government-owned and operated systems, but government-funded systems. This is probably a good place to point out that, unless I’m missing something, no one serious is proposing that the US adopt a system like Britain’s or Canada’s. The health reform plans that are on the table are not government-owned and operated systems, but government-funded systems.

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