Rationed health care delivery in UK

Daily Mail:

A new mother gave birth in a car as it sped along a motorway after being sent home twice that day by a hospital because she wasn't ready enough.

Rebecca Longley, 20, was forced to deliver daughter Aaliyah herself as boyfriend Andrew Mildenhall desperately tried to stay focused on the road ahead.

The couple had first gone to the hospital that morning and then again in the evening but were told both times that Rebecca wasn't ready to give birth.

Two hours later the beauty therapist's waters broke but when she phoned the same hospital, medics advised her to stay at home.

Just ten minutes later Rebecca and Andrew decided to take matters into their own hands and head back to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, in Winchester, Hants.

But before they got there Rebecca went into labour and gave birth to the 6lb 1oz baby girl on the front passenger seat on the M3 motorway.

The couple have now called on the hospital to review its admissions procedures.

Miss Longley, from Hamble, Hampshire, said: 'I really had no idea what to expect because it was my first child. I had a real mix of emotions.

'When it first started I was so scared and worried but that turned to relief and happiness when she was born and we realised she was OK.

'Andrew did a brilliant job to carry on driving even though he was feeling quite faint.

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I am not sure Andrew had the tough job in this delivery, but both are fortunate in light of the poor service that can be expected from rationed health care. We will see similar cases in this country if the Democrats are successful in pushing their health care bill.