Look at what we would stand to lose under a single-payer, John Edwards or Hillary Clinton style “single payer” system. After all, this is the English system, touted as a model by the DemocratICK candidates.

Women in labour could face lengthy journeys by ambulance to distant specialist units under plans which would strip dozens of local hospitals of consultant-led maternity services.

Department of Health proposals unveiled yesterday seek a smaller number of consultant units to deal with the most complicated births and the sickest babies.
It would be left to local, midwife-led units to handle the majority of births, while more women would be encouraged to have their babies at home.

Unusually, the health minister responsible for maternity services, Ivan Lewis, was not present at the report's launch.

To put that into American English for you, that means that having an actual attending physician at a birth would become even less common in England, and specialists – ObGyns – would be rarer still.

Indeed, we see that the quality of healthcare continues to decline under the NHS. Why would we try to implement such a system here?

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