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.
guaranteed to raise the (…) infant mortality rate
there’s a very dark humour joke about abortion somewhere in there
Almost everyone in this thread is talking about how this is a bad thing and why it happened.
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.
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).
They’ll still be delivering babies, just doing it in the ER without specialists. You think maternal mortality is high now, they’re not going for a New High Score!
Rather be dead than be born in Alabama to Alabaman parents. This is a mercy.
i like my humour the way i like my coffee
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Lived near the AL border for years. That’s what’s fucking wrong with me. FL is absolute garbage but it doesn’t hold a candle to the Habsburg Hell that is AL.
I meant what I said. My opinion will change when Alabama stops fucking their cousins and starts joining us in the 21st century.
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.
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.
Arm the youth.
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.
