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This in response to my question on cost analysis -
home birth v hospital birth. liz
----- Original Message -----
From: nzcom
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 6:13 AM
Subject: Your e-mail to MPO passed on to us to respond Elizabeth
Don’t quite understand what you mean. The New
Zealand system doesn’t distinguish risk/cost by place of birth. Home and
hospital are considered perfectly bona fide choices by the New Zealand
government, the health funders and the providers (notwithstanding some
resistance in the medical profession to home birth). I’m sure that if home birth
was a factor in cost, insurers would have made some indication about this. The
College has no evidence to say home birth has a different cost
structure.
Karen Guilliland
Director
NZ College of Midwives
PO Box 21106 Christchurch Telephone 03 377 2732 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Facsimile 03 377 5662 |
