People in America’s Deep South don’t blame hospitals for closing their maternity wards. They blame their ‘pro-family’ politicians. ‘It’s complete hypocrisy.’
The average Hospital Chief Executive Officer salary in Grove Hill, AL is $820,724 as of October 01, 2024, but the salary range typically falls between $621,434 and $1,047,202
Have the Medicaid recipients of Jackson Medical Center’s catchment area figured out what causes pregnancies? It seems to me that a little education would alleviate the concern about the maternity ward closing.
My grandmother was a midwife in Hungary , she went with a doctor across Europe to birth aristocrat baby's and baby's of wealthy Muslims in Turkey with multiple wife's . When she migrated to Chicago she kept Midwifing there also . My mother was a registered OB nurse , by that time Midwifing was mostly gone due to regulations and few were left around . Nurse/Midwifing has a real place in small town america and needs to be encouraged back . But the first problem is the medical community has to let it back . The second problem is the funding for such a clinic. This piece brings up the problem of funding but not the medical licencing problems that go with small clinics . Seems this reporter is a bit ignorant of the big picture here . Small towns need small clinics not hospitals for immediate care then helicopter teleport's to move critical patients to critical services at big city hospitals. Yes this takes money but a system like this could and does work for care in small towns . This is something TFP should we writing about , lets keep the pro-life thing out of this and treat it as small town issue of care .
Even though I doubt the sincerity of intent of the writer, this article certainly makes a good argument that we need to reorder our society into one that welcomes children into the world and not just with laws prohibiting abortion. Every mother should be entitled to healthcare that secures both her well-being and the well-being of her child. If we can afford public funding for sports stadiums and tax credits to giant corporations we can afford hospitals in rural areas. In fact we should afford the hospitals and let the sport teams and corporations take care of themselves.
This article is a piece of journalistic malpractice, and I am seriously considering unsubscribing because of it. The headline, tag and teaser quote completely twist the actual objective information given here. The closing paragraphs do the same. This was a blatantly twisted attempt to connect two things that are not connected. I have recognized for some time that TFP is incapable of free thought regarding abortion, but this is ridiculous. It screams “You cannot trust us to report objectively!”
If I want this kind of twaddle I can get in two dozen other places for free. This creates a serious breach of trust for me. TFP just lost a boatload of credibility. Hope it was worth it.
Sounds like they are putting the blame on the women instead of the radical left who have run this country into the ground. Shame on TFP. Can I say disappointed?
Ridiculous framing of the topic, but a worthwhile read. We take for granted the incredible advances in healthcare, but we seem to think these advances are some combination of birthright and free. Somebody has to pay for them. That would be you and me, the taxpayers. At some point, the money to subsidize everything runs out.
A McJob is not a right. People should take charge of their lives before they even are old enough to understand what that means. But parents should understand. and, if necessary, move to where the jobs and education are. Will some towns die? yes. But that's evolution. Nostalgia is just nostalgia.
And people want to nationalize health-care. Look north where Canada offers to kill chronic patients to save money. It is insane to tie support for urban healthcare to arbitrary length of stay cost cutting measures that result in closed critical services.
Why are you using underfunded hospitals in Alabama as a stick to beat pro-lifers? The subject is complicated but this is not honest reporting. Someone has an agenda.
I have two kids of my own that all those damn pro-lifers are responsible for financially. And they are in their 20’s. It’s simple, if you don’t want people to murder unborn children you better pay all the costs of having children. Period.
I couldn't agree less. Neither the State nor pro-lifers are financially responsible for the costs incurred by irresponsible people who choose not to use birth control. Keeping your legs together is pretty cheap!
There’s no reason why any governing body should reimburse low-risk births attended by highly specialized OBs. I’m guessing if most deliveries in urban centres were performed by qualified nurse-midwives the savings could be allocated to ensuring rural areas have an OB on-call. Cheaper but no less skilled midwifery care pre-term might also prevent many expensive labour and delivery complications in those same populations.
Man, I had to check twice to make sure I was on the right website. Articles like this are usually in my hometown liberal rag that always casts everything as victims vs oppressors.
Pro-family / Pro-life has nothing to do with this. Alabama is not at all unique in this situation. Small towns are all struggling to keep hospitals open. The answer is not more government unless you want to end up like the Soviet Union, where everyone got poor care and had to wait in a very long line to get even that. The real reason is competition from larger hospitals with better facilities and equipment, and the high cost of pretty much everything.
One place to start is tort reform. Kick all of the lawyers out of the emergency rooms and cap payouts so that there is no longer this great incentive to sue everybody for every less than perfect outcome. Truly harmed individuals would still get reasonable compensation without forcing hospitals and doctors to pay for very expensive insurance that is really paid for by the patients.
I just see absolutely no connection between abortion legislation and the closing of rural hospitals because Medicaid pays so little. The author surely didn’t make the connection; I don’t even see any attempt at all to do so.
Strange article
For what it’s worth:
The average Hospital Chief Executive Officer salary in Grove Hill, AL is $820,724 as of October 01, 2024, but the salary range typically falls between $621,434 and $1,047,202
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Have the Medicaid recipients of Jackson Medical Center’s catchment area figured out what causes pregnancies? It seems to me that a little education would alleviate the concern about the maternity ward closing.
My grandmother was a midwife in Hungary , she went with a doctor across Europe to birth aristocrat baby's and baby's of wealthy Muslims in Turkey with multiple wife's . When she migrated to Chicago she kept Midwifing there also . My mother was a registered OB nurse , by that time Midwifing was mostly gone due to regulations and few were left around . Nurse/Midwifing has a real place in small town america and needs to be encouraged back . But the first problem is the medical community has to let it back . The second problem is the funding for such a clinic. This piece brings up the problem of funding but not the medical licencing problems that go with small clinics . Seems this reporter is a bit ignorant of the big picture here . Small towns need small clinics not hospitals for immediate care then helicopter teleport's to move critical patients to critical services at big city hospitals. Yes this takes money but a system like this could and does work for care in small towns . This is something TFP should we writing about , lets keep the pro-life thing out of this and treat it as small town issue of care .
Even though I doubt the sincerity of intent of the writer, this article certainly makes a good argument that we need to reorder our society into one that welcomes children into the world and not just with laws prohibiting abortion. Every mother should be entitled to healthcare that secures both her well-being and the well-being of her child. If we can afford public funding for sports stadiums and tax credits to giant corporations we can afford hospitals in rural areas. In fact we should afford the hospitals and let the sport teams and corporations take care of themselves.
This article is a piece of journalistic malpractice, and I am seriously considering unsubscribing because of it. The headline, tag and teaser quote completely twist the actual objective information given here. The closing paragraphs do the same. This was a blatantly twisted attempt to connect two things that are not connected. I have recognized for some time that TFP is incapable of free thought regarding abortion, but this is ridiculous. It screams “You cannot trust us to report objectively!”
If I want this kind of twaddle I can get in two dozen other places for free. This creates a serious breach of trust for me. TFP just lost a boatload of credibility. Hope it was worth it.
Sounds like they are putting the blame on the women instead of the radical left who have run this country into the ground. Shame on TFP. Can I say disappointed?
Ridiculous framing of the topic, but a worthwhile read. We take for granted the incredible advances in healthcare, but we seem to think these advances are some combination of birthright and free. Somebody has to pay for them. That would be you and me, the taxpayers. At some point, the money to subsidize everything runs out.
A McJob is not a right. People should take charge of their lives before they even are old enough to understand what that means. But parents should understand. and, if necessary, move to where the jobs and education are. Will some towns die? yes. But that's evolution. Nostalgia is just nostalgia.
I was brought up in the Bronx.
pro-life causes funding for births to dry up and maternity wards to close
therefore . . . expanded abortion rights cause funding for births to increase and maternity wards to open
use of fans in the south in late summer causes hurricanes
stop using fans
And people want to nationalize health-care. Look north where Canada offers to kill chronic patients to save money. It is insane to tie support for urban healthcare to arbitrary length of stay cost cutting measures that result in closed critical services.
Not all mothers need ob-gyns. Birth should mostly be fine with just a midwife, or 2. In the UK better results for most mums as well.
Why are you using underfunded hospitals in Alabama as a stick to beat pro-lifers? The subject is complicated but this is not honest reporting. Someone has an agenda.
I have two kids of my own that all those damn pro-lifers are responsible for financially. And they are in their 20’s. It’s simple, if you don’t want people to murder unborn children you better pay all the costs of having children. Period.
I couldn't agree less. Neither the State nor pro-lifers are financially responsible for the costs incurred by irresponsible people who choose not to use birth control. Keeping your legs together is pretty cheap!
There’s no reason why any governing body should reimburse low-risk births attended by highly specialized OBs. I’m guessing if most deliveries in urban centres were performed by qualified nurse-midwives the savings could be allocated to ensuring rural areas have an OB on-call. Cheaper but no less skilled midwifery care pre-term might also prevent many expensive labour and delivery complications in those same populations.
The biggest culprit seems to be Medicaid.
No. The biggest culprits are people who live beyond their means!
Man, I had to check twice to make sure I was on the right website. Articles like this are usually in my hometown liberal rag that always casts everything as victims vs oppressors.
Pro-family / Pro-life has nothing to do with this. Alabama is not at all unique in this situation. Small towns are all struggling to keep hospitals open. The answer is not more government unless you want to end up like the Soviet Union, where everyone got poor care and had to wait in a very long line to get even that. The real reason is competition from larger hospitals with better facilities and equipment, and the high cost of pretty much everything.
One place to start is tort reform. Kick all of the lawyers out of the emergency rooms and cap payouts so that there is no longer this great incentive to sue everybody for every less than perfect outcome. Truly harmed individuals would still get reasonable compensation without forcing hospitals and doctors to pay for very expensive insurance that is really paid for by the patients.
I just see absolutely no connection between abortion legislation and the closing of rural hospitals because Medicaid pays so little. The author surely didn’t make the connection; I don’t even see any attempt at all to do so.