The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
Fuck everyone in this thread cheering this on. This is NOT the schadenfreude you think it is.
Read the article you dipshits. This is not impacting the wealthy, or white areas, it’s impacting the poor black ones.
All you lazy armchair activists are cheering on the actions that are guaranteed to raise the black infant mortality rate in Alabama even higher than it already is.
Almost everyone in this thread is talking about how this is a bad thing and why it happened.
Never let reality stop you from getting infuriated.
When I came to the thread I just spammed my point across all the top comments, which were all cheering it on.
So you’re just seeing my comments, and maybe others who came in after and also read the article.
so you spammed the same shit to everyone with bad takes and you thought it was so important to post a standalone too? jesus dude, relax
there’s only 26 comments (8 parents) a day later ffs, it’s not like there was an outpouring of support the way your comment implies
Yes, I took approx. 2 minutes of my toilet time to call out the bad takes.
Do you want to help me manage my shits more effectively?
If I send you my pooping schedule, can you make sure to recommend the posts I should respond to?
They’ll still be delivering babies, just doing it in the ER without specialists. You think maternal mortality is high now, they’re going for a New High Score!
Which is frankly terrifying. ER docs are only required to do 10 deliveries during residency, which are often as glorified observers. I did nearly 100 deliveries in my rural unopposed FM residency and that was no where near enough to feel comfortable making it a part of my practice.
So, yes, they are going to set records.
Rather be dead than be born in Alabama to Alabaman parents. This is a mercy.
Now you can be both at the same time!
One issue with mother baby units is they are loss leaders. This is why not every hospital has them. They only drain money from a hospital. If the hospital has other money making specialists bringing in the cash, then the mother baby unit can stay.
The other piece is a hospital can only have units for the medical specialists they can attract. If, say, they can’t find cardiologists then there will be no cath lab, and patients needing that care will have to be transferred elsewhere. If, say, Alabama is having a hard time attracting OBGYNs due to archaic laws regarding women’s medical care, then the unit would have to close even if the hospital has no financial reason to do so.
The article strongly suggests that the maternity unit closings are due to the financials, not Alabama 's recent laws against abortion. I wish they had explored these new laws as a cause (anti abortion laws was the primary cause for closings in Idaho).
And the law passed that family members could sue doctors for administering mis…priizone? Sp.
Even in non pregnancy cases if the patient could possibly pregnant.
From an interview with an Idaho doctor who was trying to decide if they would stay or go.
Pass stupid laws win stupid prizes.
Yeah, that’ll show the…reads article…poor black residents of Alabama.
Hey…maybe you should the read the article and then reevaluate your comment.
Well, unless you’re just a really big fan of raising the infant mortality rate of that particular demographic.
Arm the youth.
