[MD] Quality of Universal Health Care

[Platt Holden]

Hi All, 

On today's front page of the British newspaper "The Independent,"  a 
reliable source I'm told by our British contributors, is the following 
report:

Headline:  "Britain's maternity crisis: A crying shame

Subhead: "Too few trained staff, a massive shortage of midwives, and poor 
resources mean that hundreds of babies are dying needlessly each year and 
that death rates in childbirth are showing no signs of declining, despite 
medical advances. Jonathan Owen reports

"Published: 23 September 2007

"Up to 1,000 babies that are born dead each year could be saved if doctors 
and midwives were better trained to spot vital warning signs, according to 
one of the UK's leading experts on stillbirths. Health experts say the 
numbers of stillbirths in the UK are alarmingly high – 10 times the level 
of cot deaths – and most are unexplained.

"New research to be presented at an international conference in Birmingham 
next week will hear that "sub-optimal care" is a key factor in many of the 
deaths. In many cases, midwives are having to deal with too many births."

The rest of the report is at:

 http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2990158.ece 

Is this what we want in the U.S? Hillary and the left-wing thinks so.  

Regards,
Platt