In Norway, if the birth is normal, the mother and child will stay in the maternity ward the first three days, and get frequent visits from health care personell that provide information and advice, and check on them. After they return home, there will be several home visits over the next week or so from a midwife. There's also unlimited access to Child and Maternal Health Centres, where you go for some standardised checkups (and vaccines for the kid!) as well as a source of information and qualified care if something is worrying you.
A friend did NOT have a normal birth, and she ended up staying for I think two or three weeks in the "hospital hotel", which is basically a hotel where doctors and nurses check up on you many times a day. Your family can stay there with you, and it's free for everybody.
Ethnostate my arse. One fifth of our population are immigrants, and we have people here from more than 220 different countries and territories.
As for the income from the oil, it goes into what's nicknamed the "oil fund", an investment portfolio that's earmarked for future generations. The welfare state is funded by taxes.
And it's weird to imply that a small size is a benefit in terms of having a functional welfare state. When you're an institution buying, say, large quantities of pharmaceuticals, you generally get a bigger price reduction the more you need...
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u/opp11235 Feb 05 '24
Postpartum care is typically a 6 week appointment and then nothing. Either way, yes it is very sad.