Pro-life vid of day: Overcrowding hurting maternity care?
by Hans Johnson
As Obamacare is being implemented to a fuller extent, the fear of overcrowded ERs – especially in the bigger cities – is growing into reality. More stories of unpleasant experiences in child delivery are surfacing.
Annie and McKay Coppins (pictured) arrived at New York University’s Langone Medical Center after seven hours of labor at home. It took 45 minutes in a waiting room with other laboring mothers before a nurse checked how far she was dilated – in a crowded hallway. There was still no doctor for an hour and a half before they were moved to another waiting room to… wait.
After a flurry of tweets apparently lit a fire, they do now have a healthy two-month old, but they could have done without what they consider an unnecessarily wild and wooly birth experience. Here is the report from PIX11 (click image to watch):
The reporter of this piece, Narmeen Choudhury, had a personal stake, for she had an even more harrowing experience six months before:
My only goal in sharing my story is [to] hopefully empower women to speak up for themselves. We are at our most vulnerable when we go in to deliver our babies and yet we are also at our strongest. We should not head in to take part in one of life’s most empowering and beautiful moments and come out feeling stripped and traumatized.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
ER overcrowding and Obamacare – I would be very cautious in using this as a criticism of Obama or Obamacare; ER overcrowding is too complicated to easily blame on Obamacare. Plus, on the linked story, I cannot even figure out how previously uninsured people are going to crowd the ER. The argument seems to be based on an opinion from one physician, and does not make sense.
The story also notes that ERs have steadily been closing – the story admits this is a trend across many years; it would be very difficult to pick out an Obamacare ER Overcrowding Effect against that trend.
This is a massively bizarre criticism of anything (as TLD pointed out).
The ‘response’ would seem to be “okay, kick people off of insurance and have them give birth at home – or not get emergency care”.
What?
Too many people having babies and going to the ER, and somehow it’s the fault of Obamacare? Very funny.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/average-er-wait-time-increases-to-1-hour/
In 2008, ER wait times had already grown immensely.
“The ER has become the front door to the hospital”
I am surprised you’d pick a lesbian couple for this thread.
Stavros Amanatides: I am surprised you’d pick a lesbian couple for this thread.
Anybody seen my butt? I think I laughed it off. : P
That is a funny picture.
What’s really funny about this for me is that as usual, it’s the liberals making the LGBT jokes. Not the conservatives.
Typical.
If that’s a guy in the picture, then he looks like the love-child of Drew Carey and Ellen Degeneres.