As much as we complain about health care, it's not as bad as it used to be

I was googling, and ran across a geneology site that I had never found before. Actually saw a picture of my grandfather as an infant, and looked at the interesting stuff on the site.. My grandfather apparently was from Northern Ireland..not southern, as I had always thought.. His family hailed from Armagh via Ontario Canada. he and his twin sister were born July 22, 1890..



My grandmother, who he married in Feb 1910, gave birth to 9 children between 1911 and 1928..Three lived..

They buried

Emma 1911 lived one day
John 1912 stillborn...my aunt was born that same year and lived
Rose 1914 stillborn...
Francis 1916 stillborn
Mary 1917 lived 2 days
Cecelia 1920 stillborn


My aunt was born in 1912
My uncle was born in 1922 and lived
My mother was born in 1928

As crappy as we all think the care is, at least modern women do not have to endure this.. I cannot imagine how she did not lose her mind..

When I was a child, I ran across a box of old photos of the babies.. They dressed them up, had their picture taken in the carriage and then buried them:cry:

childbirth.

However, it would be nice to be able to go to the doctor and get the needed medicines without going broke.

People who are rich can get health care no matter what. Either they have it through their jobs or they can buy it with their riches. Most employed upper middle class and middle class people get health care through their employers. The very poor and disabled who qualify for (and receive) government benefits get health care as part of those services.

That leaves the unemployed, underemployed, and employed who do not receive insurance via their employers. These are the people who truly suffer. They go without medical care, without medications and without preventitive care. Only in dire emergencies do they seek care, and then pay exorbitant prices because hospitals, doctors and pharmacies charge higher for unisured patients.

It is criminal how the system works.

Doctor Dyer. He was truly frightening, old, and probably incompetent.

Yes, with all the problems, things are better now than they used to be. If you look in the old cemeteries, you see that there were plenty of old people back then - an average life-span of 40 years didn't mean everyone died at 40 - what it meant was that an AWFUL lot of kids died before they were 10.

And that shouldn't happen to kids.

Redstone

she was a very small woman..I have been told that most of the ones who died were breech, and by the time she managed to deliver them, they were dead.. I cannot imagine how horrible it must have been for her..