In England, a woman was having a very difficult pregnancy. She ended up going into labor 21 weeks and five days after conception. The record for a surviving baby is 21 weeks and six days.
And it still is.
The fetus did not survive.
Oh, it was born alive. Its heart beat, it breathed, it moved. But under the definition of the National Health Service, it was too early. So it was denied any care whatsoever — and the miscarriage took almost two hours after delivery to recognize that it was not alive.
Fortunately for Sarah Capewell, she was under the care of Britain’s universal health coverage system. Had she been in the US, things might have turned out differently.
In the movie Sicko, Michael Moore speaks to an older gentleman who said that Brits in general love their health care system and would revolt if they ever got an inkling that it was about to be taken away.
I always keep that in mind when I hear stories like this.
Read the rest of the story; then you tell me if you think the Capewell family was thanking God for the NHS.