OK, I have been following this string of comments.Not to be pedantic, but the neonatologists and nicu nurses are more important than the equipment.
For a moment, allow me to play the "Devil's Advocate".
Re: The Laws of Nature / survival of the fittest
America was conceived with native's and settlers who had none of the items that have been listed. They had to be a pretty hardy bunch to survive.
Maybe, just maybe a good number of these babies / children / parents should have not survived birth.
Look around at all of the cancer clinics, child disease research hospitals, lawsuits and pharmaceutical boondoggles going on.
There is an entire sub-culture thriving on babies that should not have lived.
The population of America is weak..... The weakest of the weak are surviving.
What happened in the animal world when a species became weak?
Reading about the physical condition of military recruits comes to mind.
Hoping America does not have to fight a war.