Hello to all you women out there who think that you might be interested in a National Health System. I want to pass along some fun things that can happen. These happened to Mrs. Layoutshooter when we were on the British National Health System.
She is pregnate.
3 weeks prior to birth has a minor problem, put into hospital. Building is a U.S. Army WW2 Quansett Hut, with little more than wood pallets over the dirt for the floor. Dinner was a tiny piece of meat and 3 kinds of potatos and water. You had to pay extra for milk.
Goes home. Goes into labor at 2am (as you know most babies fight to get out around 2am, it's a rule.) Calls me at work, I rush home, take her to the hospital. They will NOT call in a DR. to deliver. Why? they use a neat thing called Birth by Convienence, of the DR. that is. SO, they inject Mrs. Layoutshooter with drugs to STOP the normal labor until morning when the DR's came in. Dr. comes in around 9. Checks her out, starts an I.V. with more drugs to start the labor that they stopped the night before. She asks them to call me. They say no. They want to wait awhile. SO, she grabs some coins, the I.V. stand and waddles down the hall to the pay phone to call me, pulling the I.V. stand behind. I come in. Just as I get there they rush her in to the delivery room. Seems the baby does not work on thier schedual. I sit on her bed, surrounded by 7-8 other very pregnate women, no waiting rooms in British Hospitals. All of a sudden a nurse rushes in, throws a gown and mask at me and tells me I have to hurry!! I thought something was wrong (men did not go into delivery rooms as the norm back then) I get scared just to find out that they want me to see son born (thats cool) I look around room, dirty floors, dirty mop and mop bucket with dirty mop water right next to delivery table. A bug here and a bug there. Son and wife ok, Thank God.
This was not in the dark ages, this was 1977, 2 years after my first son was born in a U.S. hospitial in MI. It was clean, bright and only 2 women per room. A waiting room. Sterial conditions in the delivery room.
Still want National Health? Watch the movie "Calander Girls" about some old ladies that do a "nude calander" in England to raise money to buy a couch for the waiting room in the hospital there, true story.
Still want it? I don't. I have lived it. I seen how backward the health care is and how high the taxes are to pay for it.
Promise a "freebie" and the fools line up!!!
Layoutshooter
She is pregnate.
3 weeks prior to birth has a minor problem, put into hospital. Building is a U.S. Army WW2 Quansett Hut, with little more than wood pallets over the dirt for the floor. Dinner was a tiny piece of meat and 3 kinds of potatos and water. You had to pay extra for milk.
Goes home. Goes into labor at 2am (as you know most babies fight to get out around 2am, it's a rule.) Calls me at work, I rush home, take her to the hospital. They will NOT call in a DR. to deliver. Why? they use a neat thing called Birth by Convienence, of the DR. that is. SO, they inject Mrs. Layoutshooter with drugs to STOP the normal labor until morning when the DR's came in. Dr. comes in around 9. Checks her out, starts an I.V. with more drugs to start the labor that they stopped the night before. She asks them to call me. They say no. They want to wait awhile. SO, she grabs some coins, the I.V. stand and waddles down the hall to the pay phone to call me, pulling the I.V. stand behind. I come in. Just as I get there they rush her in to the delivery room. Seems the baby does not work on thier schedual. I sit on her bed, surrounded by 7-8 other very pregnate women, no waiting rooms in British Hospitals. All of a sudden a nurse rushes in, throws a gown and mask at me and tells me I have to hurry!! I thought something was wrong (men did not go into delivery rooms as the norm back then) I get scared just to find out that they want me to see son born (thats cool) I look around room, dirty floors, dirty mop and mop bucket with dirty mop water right next to delivery table. A bug here and a bug there. Son and wife ok, Thank God.
This was not in the dark ages, this was 1977, 2 years after my first son was born in a U.S. hospitial in MI. It was clean, bright and only 2 women per room. A waiting room. Sterial conditions in the delivery room.
Still want National Health? Watch the movie "Calander Girls" about some old ladies that do a "nude calander" in England to raise money to buy a couch for the waiting room in the hospital there, true story.
Still want it? I don't. I have lived it. I seen how backward the health care is and how high the taxes are to pay for it.
Promise a "freebie" and the fools line up!!!
Layoutshooter
