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In reply to the discussion: Florida to allow doctors to perform C-sections outside hospitals [View all]elias7
(4,229 posts)18. These groups have a greed quotient like hedge funds, which many of them are
Small independent doctor groups or hospital employee doctor groups for the most part have been overtaken by these for profit financial groups.
Maximizing billing and collections is inherent to their business model and they are able to be ruthless because they're not local.
Some legislatures have worked to prevent "surprise billing", where you're in network hospital charges you out of network fees because the ER doc that treated you was from out of the area.
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Florida to allow doctors to perform C-sections outside hospitals [View all]
BumRushDaShow
May 2024
OP
How about a really, really clean, nice hotel room? Like the junior suite at the Marriott freshly fucking serviced?
SoFlaBro
May 2024
#34
Right, because clinics will have ALL the tools and staff when something goes wrong
sakabatou
May 2024
#2
Right, one the baby is out, the woman is just an empty shell and can be discarded
Warpy
May 2024
#23
I don't play a TV doctor, but I did sit in on the caesarean delivery of my two daughters, within five feet with an ...
marble falls
May 2024
#4
The average hospital stay after a C-section is 2-4 days, but these women can only stay overnight.
pnwmom
May 2024
#14
Which other types of major surgery will they be allowing outside of hospitals?
surrealAmerican
May 2024
#17
Knowing Florida, they'll probably require arbitration instead of lawsuits if something goes wrong.
Wonder Why
May 2024
#19
We haven't taken care of children, women and families in this country for a long time.
littlemissmartypants
May 2024
#27
The United States Federal government and state and local governments have never.
Traurigkeit
May 2024
#36
Watch for the explosion of shady doctors with dead women and newborn babies.
littlemissmartypants
May 2024
#28
That's going to rise. What about newborn deaths? Did you see any data on that?
littlemissmartypants
May 2024
#46
Requiring a c-section automatically removes a patient from the low risk category
Raven123
May 2024
#30
In my eariler years I was a military surgical scrub tech. Over the 4 years I was on active duty I scrub on the average..
usaf-vet
May 2024
#39
God damn it, so it looks like if my daughter gets pregnant, she will need to leave the state to deliver - just in case.
lark
May 2024
#45
Maternal Mortality short video with stats, sound down, annoying generic music
littlemissmartypants
May 2024
#47