I'm thinking that I'd prefer informed government making recommendations on health care to greedy insurance people doing so. The Insurance people decided that women who have given birth should be up and about and home within 24 hours where they will have people to (apparently) care for them. I know few women who have that luxury, and for a woman to go home and start back on house work immediately after a major medical event like child birth...
Ich, couldn't agree more about the insurance companies... it's like asking your house-cat to babysit your pet mouse. Slight conflict of interest. Hospital beds are mighty pricey and, gee, the new mom can still walk, right? Send her home straightaway!
Luckily they have since changed it back to 2 days, and 4 for c-section.
I bullied my doctors and told them that I needed two days, as I had a toddler at home and needed the rest before taking my second with me. I think they were so shocked that I was insisting that it was "medically necessary" that they didn't know what to make of it. And in the end I got my two days.
'Cause even if they TELL you not to lift anything bigger than your newborn, how do you explain that to the toddler when you've been away for the first time for longer than an evening?
That's a separate issue, and I do think we'd be better off with a single-payer system, preferably one that doesn't give people a financial incentive to skimp on people's healthcare (like kicking new mothers out of the hospital after a day).
What annoyed me about McCaughey's piece was the degree of fabrication in it: it doesn't matter whether you want the government running healthcare or not, because that's not what's in the bill.
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Well, that's my pet peeve.
Thank you for posting this.
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Luckily they have since changed it back to 2 days, and 4 for c-section.
I bullied my doctors and told them that I needed two days, as I had a toddler at home and needed the rest before taking my second with me. I think they were so shocked that I was insisting that it was "medically necessary" that they didn't know what to make of it. And in the end I got my two days.
'Cause even if they TELL you not to lift anything bigger than your newborn, how do you explain that to the toddler when you've been away for the first time for longer than an evening?
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What annoyed me about McCaughey's piece was the degree of fabrication in it: it doesn't matter whether you want the government running healthcare or not, because that's not what's in the bill.
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