All the Polls that have been posted over the Years. Nobodies Posted this Basic One, and I want you to be Honest about where you were born.

Question:
Where you born in...

Choices:
A State funded Hospital?
A Private Hospital?
At Home?
Other Place?

 

I was born in a hospital, and I suppose it's private. I don't really understand what a state funded hospital is.

I think most US hospitals receive some degree of public money.

Hi Bedstor,
I was born here, as was my daughter.

I have no idea whether the Montreal General Hospital was private or state or anything else in September of 1922. I had no choice in any case; I had to be with my mother at the time.

Just one of the nobodies!

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Just one of the nobodies!

Not true!

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Originally posted by honilov:
I don't really understand what a state funded hospital is.

In the Uk Most Hospitals are State funded
if you pay fully (for treatment and your stay ) You are deemed to be "Private".Obviously You may stay sometimes in a State hospital(If it specialises in a certain treatment). But you are segregated from the rest(Us Commoners ) in a private room ...Does that ring a Bell with You?

Correct me if I'm wrong someone, but I don't think the systems in the UK and the US can be compared in that way, Bedstor.
In the UK, everyone is covered by the NHS, and then they can opt for private care by paying extra, as you say.
But, as I understand it, in the US, the level of care you are entitled to, depends on your insurance company, and is essentially all private.

I don’t know whether the hospital I was born in was private or state-funded. I’m not really sure how the medical system works, other than that your level of health insurance pretty much dictates your level of care, and where you can obtain it. The hospital in which I was born is now closed.

I know im late on this having just seen this but, my understanding of public hospitals is anytime they accept federal or state funding.

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The hospital in which I was born is now closed.

They regretted your birth that much, Lexi?

I was born 'at home' in a private maternity hospital. My father, sensing a business opportunity at the end of WW2, bought a property, in early 1946, which he then converted to a maternity hospital. That was in time for what became the 'baby boom'.He 'explained' to my mother that his sole reason for doing this was for her: the romantic one that I could be born 'at home', since he owned the place, whilst under the best medical care. Hmm.Not a mention of profit or market forces or demand... (No, she didn't believe he was that noble, either )