Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units

By artappraiser on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 9:21pm |

a 3rd world country if you’re not 1st class

“..one of a string of providers across the nation that have stopped providing labor and delivery care in an effort to control costs — even as maternal deaths increase at alarming rates in the United States…” https://t.co/aD2bxy5YFt
— James Wagner @[email protected] (@wagnerblog) February 28, 2023

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/health/rural-hospitals-pregnancy-childbirth.html

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Here is an even worse fact.. average life expectancy in USA has not increased more than a year since 2000. Healthcare spending, inflation adjusted, has gone up about 2.5-3x during same time period.
— PharmaHeretic (@Pharmaheretic) March 9, 2023

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 9:28am

Yglesias is VERY correct here, mho! It's the combination of a for-profit model with elaborate confusing wily-nily regulation with vague socialist goals that gives us a uniquely terrible result:

This is a good analogy!

But in fact regulatory restrictions on the supply of doctors & hospitals are an important driving of high prices for American health care services. https://t.co/ispOaWujsA
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 19, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/19/2023 - 12:26pm

Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units

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