Political Quotes

“Today Congress has the opportunity to put an end to the insidious practice of insurance companies sending moms and babes home before they are ready to go. Hurried discharges after childbirth fly in the face of established medical practice, insult the precious institution of motherhood, and greatly increase the likelihood that newborn babies could suffer irreversible brain damage or require emergency medical care for illnesses within hours or days after discharge. These abbreviated stays also put mothers at risk. Mothers and doctors are not seeking cadillac health care coverage, they are merely demanding similar coverage to that received by mothers and infants in every other industrialized nation on Earth. Efforts by insurers to arbitrarily limit maternity stays for mothers and newborns should be of concern to all of us. Decisions on how long mothers and newborns should stay in the hospital should be made by doctors and patients together based upon medical and health care needs and not primarily by the short-term business predictions of shortsighted health insurance providers.”