Three days to a week for an uncomplicated, plain vanilla birth? I don’t know anyone who did that-I went home the same day I had my cub-so did all the other moms who were in my Lamaze group-that was over 45 years ago, and paid for by the US military. My mom went home same day she had me-military again-but at a country hospital in W. Texas. Most women out here now use a nurse practitioner/midwife and either do the deed at home or go to the nearest birthing center-about 30 miles away-and it is like drive-thru surgery-in and out. But this is out in the country, so maybe that is why it is different.
I know people who have had a shrieking temper tantrum when they saw the Bulls*** their insurance-medicaid, Tricare/Tricare for life supplemental, Obamacare, whatever it was-had been billed for-everything from double billing to visits/consults with specialists that never happened. There is something wrong with all this, all right-and it would stop if government would get out of healthcare and leave it to the market to sort out...
I agree with your take on it. Get government out of it.
I really want to mention on thing about home births. That works well in a lot of instances. If you have a bleeder, they’re dead.
It may cost more, but there’s no way in hell I’d let my wife deliver at home, if I were married and that period of my life again.
If the government paid your hardware bill, it would be the same thing. You wouldn’t likely look at the bill.
Look, the health care industry has problems. Each industry does. I do think people are dedicated there to giving good care and watch the bottom line.
I did when I worked there. I worked my ass off to cut costs.
Thank you for your comments.