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Mom Says Baby Born on Bedroom Floor After Hospital Turned Her Away (government healthcare at work)
FoxNews ^ | 7-24-09

Posted on 07/24/2009 9:12:23 AM PDT by rawhide

Edited on 07/24/2009 9:13:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A mother claims she was forced to give birth on her bedroom floor after being turned away from a Sydney, Australia hospital because there were not enough beds.

Natasha Ramirez, 27, was bleeding and in labor when she first arrived at Liverpool Hospital last week but said she was told by a nurse, "We don't have enough room tonight."


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; baby; born; floor; healthcare; obamacare; socializedmedicine

Go away ... Natasha Ramirez was allegedly turned away from hospital while in labour with Anjelita.

1 posted on 07/24/2009 9:12:23 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

“We don’t have enough room tonight.” Sounds like Obama’s Hellcare program has started.


2 posted on 07/24/2009 9:14:21 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rawhide

What an adorable baby!


3 posted on 07/24/2009 9:20:38 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Vaduz
But with Obamacarp, the hospital PA system could ask for a volunteer to give up their bed, for the lady in labor. Gurney Care: keep patients on gurneys, easier to shuffle around. Medication time, just use GPS to find patient.
4 posted on 07/24/2009 9:26:17 AM PDT by BarbM
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To: rawhide

Darling baby, but who knew they had started invading and colonizing Australia?


5 posted on 07/24/2009 9:27:10 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

The most powerful weaponon earth, the woomb.....


6 posted on 07/24/2009 9:29:31 AM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
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To: La Lydia

Invading and colonizing? What do you mean?


7 posted on 07/24/2009 9:33:57 AM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

They are in Australia, not Tucson.


8 posted on 07/24/2009 9:35:27 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

They also look Filipino.


9 posted on 07/24/2009 9:38:45 AM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

They are in Australia, not San Francisco.


10 posted on 07/24/2009 9:41:50 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: BarbM

Good idea wonder what old person life support gets unpluged?


11 posted on 07/24/2009 9:45:44 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rawhide

A member of my extended family in a mid-size city in Ontario, Canada noted to my wife and I that she arrived at the hospital mid-afternoon, after spending most of the first stage of labor at home. There were no beds when she arrived, and she spent an hour in the lobby, and was then transfered to a bed in the hallway - with three other women ahead of her “in line”. After a few hours, she requested an epidural and was told it could not be administered in the hall because that area was not sufficiently sterile (a good call, but pathetic). The staff told her she was a ways to giving birth because she was still only 7 cm with contractions about 10 minutes apart, but that a room would be available soon. As if those indicators cannot change over a short time...

Long story short, they finally get her a room before transition stage, get the epidural in, and she gives birth with no complications. The room they put her in was a “standard” birthing room for that hospital (and probably Canadian hospitals in general) - a ward-style deal with 4 beds and 2 baths, with the women afforded the privacy of drapes.

Not too bad for “free”. Apparently you can pay extra for a private or semi-private room, but you have to book fairly far in advance (great for giving birth, lol).

See, this is how you drive the price down. And as the demographic profile changes, our increasingly inverted population and tax pyramids will necessitate truly creative cost-savings techniques (more than one old person per euthanasia chamber? Airline-style birthing wards?).


12 posted on 07/24/2009 9:48:32 AM PDT by M203M4 (NEW New Deal: A pot through every window! (1/2 credit to Bastiat))
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To: Vaduz
“We don’t have enough room tonight.”

Unless you want an emergency abortion...

I wonder if Justice Ginsberg considers her the wrong sort of person.

13 posted on 07/24/2009 10:02:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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That's an 'angry' cry, little wonder. I'm glad it turned out well.

What a nightmare for mom and baby. I wonder - if she had pulled over on the ride back home and called an ambulance, would one have come? Would they have taken her to the hospital or delivered in the vehicle?

Aaaah, government healthcare, coming soon to a location near you.

14 posted on 07/24/2009 10:36:17 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: La Lydia

huh??


15 posted on 07/24/2009 2:50:24 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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