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RE: Myth: Norwegian health care is very good
In my country healthcare has become a business. You will not get a seat in government hospitals. Then the one and only way is to go to private hospitals where the cost is too high. There is a tendency also to keep patients for longer time in hospitals to get more bills. This is one of the worst and uncontrolled sectors in the country. As a result a lot of people are going to Singapore for better treatment.
Private health care has it's benefits and drawbacks ... at least in Norway we rarely overdo treatment. People are sent home from the hospitals unless they really need care.
As I wrote in my first blog post here at Steem, giving birth at home, a birth is rarely an emergency that requires a hospital stay. In Norway, people are partly encouraged to give birth at home ... but for those who do want to give birth in the hospital ... well, if the pregnant woman is coming to the hospital to give birth, the staff will quite often say ... "oh well, the birth hasn't started yet. Just go home and relax and come back later". On the other side, in Russia the pregnant women are encouraged to move into the birth clinic in good time prior to the due date. Well, I think the last thing one should do right before birth is to stress up getting to the hospital in time ...
In fact, the situation of giving birth in hospitals is the worst here. You will find thousands of private clinics in the city and doing the scissor of pregnant women though it is not required sometimes. They don’t even try for normal delivery as the cost is very less. However, situation is improving slowly as number of good hospitals are growing though the costing is out of reach for common people.