One of many reasons costs are rising. Again, no thought by you towards women and their plight. How about the level of maternal care women in America recieve? Should be good for all the money they are forced to pay. Think again. From NPR:Johnsell50 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 4:55 pmAnd the reason why hospital costs are going up, because of so many unpaid hospital bills by illegals and people who don't want to work or work off the books. They are bankrupting the system.
NPR and ProPublica teamed up for a six-month long investigation on maternal mortality in the U.S. Among our key findings:
More American women are dying of pregnancy-related complications than any other developed country. Only in the U.S. has the rate of women who die been rising.
There's a hodgepodge of hospital protocols for dealing with potentially fatal complications, allowing for treatable complications to become lethal.
Hospitals — including those with intensive care units for newborns — can be woefully unprepared for a maternal emergency.
Federal and state funding show only 6 percent of block grants for "maternal and child health" actually go to the health of mothers.
In the U.S, some doctors entering the growing specialty of maternal-fetal medicine were able to complete that training without ever spending time in a labor-delivery unit. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/52809878 ... oped-world