At 12:31 AM 6/26/01, Ritu Ko wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>In the US, getting the mother out of the hospital and back home quickly is
>>mostly (if not entirely) due to the high cost of hospitalization and the
>>wish of insurance companies to spend as little as possible.
>
>
>Even in India, you are discharged from the hospital withing 24 hours of
>the delivery [barring complications, of course]. The reason has less to do
>with the cost of hospitalization [any good hospital charges around USD 10
>per night]and more to do with the fact that hospitals tend to have
>infections floating around. :o)
Those who should know will tell you that the primary reason that new
mothers (and other patients) are shown the door as quickly as possible is
the financial one, here in the US where I don't think you can get _any_
hospital room for under ten times the price you named, and that doesn't
even begin to cover the other costs involved other than renting a
room*. Perhaps Julia could tell us how long she was actually in the
hospital to give birth to Sam and what the bill came to.
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*$10US won't even rent you a room in a cheap motel in the US
nowadays: expect to pay at least 3 to 5 times that if you stop for the night.
-- Ronn! :)
