Wednesday, September 02, 2009

If Britain's Health Care Is So Great. . .

By Douglas V. Gibbs

In defense of Obama's Health Care plan in which the government gets involved in the industry, often the Left uses health care in Europe as a shining example of how good universal health care truly is.

So if health care in Europe is so great, then why in Britain did they see:

* 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 labor beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labor 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.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets - Mail Online

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