Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

Re:Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns imp... by doggodaddo78 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:09AM (#27304034)

I just watched the Frontline episode on the Healthcare Divide where US safety-net hospitals (accept anyone hospitals of last resort) have been closing or being sold to vulture investors who buy, trim costs, and sell them at the cost of reduced care.

For-profit healthcare should be like for-profit prisons: illegal.

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Re:Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns imp... by OJFord on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#27306695)

I'm not sure about that, I live in the UK with public healthcare and optional private for-profit; I think that's fine.

Non-profit replacing the public is an interesting idea though, I've never heard that suggested before, people usually just argue about public being available or not. (And invariably quite pointlessly since neither side will budge!)

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Re:Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns imp... by missedthecue on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:51PM (#27310070)

Most Americans don't know this, but in the US, most people have healthcare insurance through a non-profit such as BCBS or Kaiser or Wellmark. Additionally, 2/3 of the hospitals themselves are non-profit.

The non-profit model is more prominent than the for profit model in the direct care area of healthcare.

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