It has been bad for years in Sweden. My son was born in Gothenburg 15 years ago. There were only 2 birthing centers in a city of 450,000+- .
You go to both in advance to see which one you want to go to.
We called our choice, Molndahl, when wife’s water broke. They said no room. So we called Ostra. They said no room.
We called Molndahl back and they said to drive to Helsingborg - 140 miles away(even though her water had already broken.)
We said we are coming there anyway.
Wife gave birth in a general appointment room with nothing but a hand held baby heart rate monitor and a bottle of nitrous oxide. Funny when you look back at it but not at the time.
No one can ever convince me of the merits of socialized medicine.
Is it the medicine or a system overloaded with outsiders invited in by liberals and a cheap labor lobby?