Twenty years ago, in the midst of a multi-day labor with my son, I asked the labor and delivery (L&D) nurse when I might expect to finally deliver. She smiled, squeezed my hand in between contractions, and told me, “The baby will come when he is ready to. These things don’t happen on a schedule!”
I dont have private healthcare and our health srvice is shit but I have mever put my hand in my pocjet beyond parking for any pregnancy related anything, and my kids have been to GPs and A&E without charge.
It’s not just ER. Family medicine, dental, vision, full cancer treatment, palliative care… It’s all free, including drugs, for every human, citizen or otherwise, legal or otherwise. There was a conscious decision not to restrict healthcare access and not to employ people to restrict access.
Technically you don’t have to. People have been having children since at least the 1500s, and they didn’t have medicade. There is nothing illegal about simply having a baby.
Having to pay, to give birth, sounds shocking to some if not even many civilized countries
I dont have private healthcare and our health srvice is shit but I have mever put my hand in my pocjet beyond parking for any pregnancy related anything, and my kids have been to GPs and A&E without charge.
ThebUS is a shithole country
As an American, I agree.
Here’s how it works in a poor third world country: https://archive.is/FL9qe (Original Washington Post article)
It’s not just ER. Family medicine, dental, vision, full cancer treatment, palliative care… It’s all free, including drugs, for every human, citizen or otherwise, legal or otherwise. There was a conscious decision not to restrict healthcare access and not to employ people to restrict access.
Technically you don’t have to. People have been having children since at least the 1500s, and they didn’t have medicade. There is nothing illegal about simply having a baby.
Yeah… humanity has moved on. We dont let people die just because we dont need them
So, folks only started having babies in the 1500s? In your mind, how did people procreate before that?