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I think there may also be some medical consequences. I really don't know of there's long-term effects, but being in water constantly dehydrates you. It's the reason your skin gets wrinkly when you've been in the bath a while: your body thinks you're over-hydrated and tries to expel water through your skin.
Take that with a grain of salt; I read it somewhere years ago, and really have no idea of it's accurate, true, or whether it'd make a difference health-wise in any case.
I suspect our temperature regulation goes out of the window too as our bodies are used to be mainly in the air (not conducting, nor conserving, nor dense) and built a range of mechanisms to cool itself or maintain the livable temp to the main organs first. Sauna is a great example in how we survive hot air at temps nearing a boiling point of water by oversweating, while water makes this ineffective and a spilled coffee can cause severe burns. If there's a chance for the bathbeds, the reaction of the body to the temp should be considered too.