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Bed shortages mean parents face
140-mile trip to see newborn triplets at THREE different hospitals
Last updated at 19:20pm on 18th March 2008
When Amee German gave birth to triplets, she and husband
Andrew knew they'd have their work cut out.
But what they hadn't expected was a 140-mile round trip to visit their children.
A lack of beds is the reason why the newborns had to be placed in three
different hospitals.
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Visiting time: Amee and Andrew on their wedding day. The couple face having to
visit three hospitals to see their children
The triplets were born eight weeks premature at the Rosie Maternity Unit in
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, but there was only one available bed at the
stretched special care unit.
The other two babies were taken to special care baby units at Hinchingbrooke
Hospital, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Full article here! Make sure you go down so you
can read all the comments from people currently living under socialized
medicine!
So this is what
you guys really want? I think our government is far more corrupt than
theirs yet they have no beds. I find it interesting that below in the
comments in pink that there are complaints of people from other countries using
their national health care raising the prices and we already have that problem
without national used health care. We have plenty of illegal immigrants
who use our emergency rooms for free daily which does cause a rise in health
care costs imagine what it will be like when that money is coming out of your
taxes.
Then if you continue to read it seems like communism
defiantly has control. You see communism is a good idea in general, the
idea of communism, is that everyone basically is given the same, a classless
society where everyone is taken care of. The problem is not in the idea in
fact some people do choose to live this way and it could in fact be a utopias. I
the reason it doe snot work is because capitalism runs in human blood. We
want more and all communist governments fail because they become corrupt by
capitalist leaders. This same concept seems to have happened with socialized
medicine here the "ruling elite" have access to the best possible healthcare
while the working class guy has to wait and wait and wait some more.
I once said I would probably vote for Obama this
election but I am sorry I have to take that back. i cannot vote to do this
to our country. With McCain I might be voting for more taxes just as I
would be were I to vote for Hillary or Obama but I cannot vote for this kind of
travesty. I would much rather see a system in place like Massachusetts has where
every one must have health insurance. If, on a national level, every one
HAD to have health insurance the government could pull the subsidies it
currently has to provide the insurance companies in Massachusetts and turn the
health care system into an open market and break the big business monopoly of
healthcare. If this were done it would become a competitive market like auto
insurance where the insurance companies had to fight to please the consumer and
offer attractive deals for you to go with them. I am sure there are people
here as old as my mom who can remember when auto insurance was too expensive to
own and it was not the law. The prices have plummeted just as they would for
health care if only the government would take control by this simple measure
instead of pandering to the insurance companies or entertaining the idea of a
poorly devises national healthcare.
- For the umpteenth time Britain
only has four beds per 1000 head of population and we are down at position
48 in the league table of beds per capita of population. For the fifth
wealthiest nation in the world that is an appalling indictment of the way in
which our NHS is run and mismanaged and explains why so many of us have to
wait 18 weeks to see a consultant, 18 weeks to be moved to a list for tests
and procedures and then another 18 weeks to have problems dealt with. Oh,
and if you are moved from one consultants list to another then the process
begins all over again. - This is just a sign of what is
happening in our health service. Overstretched, lacking money, staff etc, I
know of someone who went into labour in Cornwall (albeit false at the time)
and was told she would probably have to go to Somerset as there were no
beds. Also I was told of a Polish woman who was bringing her daughter over
here to have her baby and then she was going home again. This has got to
stop as we cannot have the same service if we went to their countries. Our
NHS is being abused by people from other countries. If I go to live in Spain
or France from my understanding I can get basic medical care (E111) but have
to take out private medical insurance. I am so glad that I had my children
in the 70s! as I really sympathise with mothers who are in this position. - This sort of thing will continue
while the ruling elite have access to the best possible healthcare. They
couldn't care less about the rest of us, so long as the moronic proportion
keeps voting for them. It's time for a change.
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