More than half of America's rural hospitals no longer deliver babies. Parents in rural towns often have to travel upwards of an hour to access essential healthcare. But instead of funding healthcare for rural Americans, Republicans' Medicaid cuts will deepen this divide.
-----
More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below:
- Help fund our reporting: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash
- Substack: https://substack.perfectunion.us/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorePerfectUS
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectunion/
- Threads: https://www.threads.net/@perfectunion
- Website: https://www.perfectunion.us
📝 Transcript
Transcribing... This may take a few minutes.
Top Comments
@aaronpod31097
The title should really be “How politicians and Corporations make it hard to have children”
3843 likes
@AuDHD_Mom
This is horrific. When the Luigi stuff was going down, I saw someone comment, "when a gun is used, it's called murder. When a pen is used, it's called business". That stuck with me.
4092 likes
@Uphorlia
Government "our population is collapsing! We need to have more babies!"
Also government "were not going to offer maternal care and delivery units. Figure it out yourself"
2356 likes
@AlexanderBalinor
The wolves are complaining that the sheep aren't breeding.
891 likes
@vicklen51
Apparently people don’t remember that before laws were changed in the 1980’s on MOST hospitals were community based nonprofits. Doctors owned their own clinics and did rotations at the local hospital.’
The worst thing for people was the corporate takeover of hospitals and medical care.
And that’s without the insurance industry issue.
They work together to pay each other at the expense of actual people.
268 likes
@dlight9849
I've already watched many people die because the local hospital closed, and the next closest one is 2 hours away. Heart attack, stroke, seizure, gun shot or other excessive bleeding -- none of it survives a two hour drive.
1186 likes
@Bob-B-.
What's more rugged individualism than telling a birthing mother she should have shopped for multiple birthing options.
463 likes
@ttopero
The hypocrisy of complaining that we are birthing fewer children than what corporations need to replace the the next generations of laborers, while cutting back on every support in creating & raising these free gifts for capitalism & corporatism is incredulous!
1610 likes
@emmyturner7385
Hospitals should not make money. It is wrong to think they deserve to extract money from people who need care.
193 likes
@-._.-KRiS-._.-
I really appreciate how she said that giving birth is a life or death situation. I wish our lawmakers understood this, or even cared.
51 likes
@Fazuchi24
They outlaw abortion then give people no where to give birth.
1324 likes
@amandamccallum6796
As a Canadian, I have never understood how you are ok with public education, and police and fire services, but for some reason, public health care is dangerous socialism to Americans.
1495 likes
@Unf0rget
Country purposefully made to forget why countries exist in the first place. Here's a hint; its because organized people have a lot more opportunity to pursue their individual happiness when our collective needs are met by one means or another. Corporations have successfully shifted the way they're viewed from the organizing bodies behind the sale of services and products to now being higher beings entitled to unrestrained profit at the direct expense of the rest of mankind.
690 likes
@bera0014
The USA is the only "developed" country where healthcare is based on profit...the rest of the world sees healthcare as a service.
27 likes
@Theravadinbuto
My family left the US 60 years ago because of the healthcare mafia. So glad they did! Think about this: I have never had to worry about health care costs or losing my insurance for even one moment in my adult life. That stress reduction alone is probably worth months of life expectancy.