Posted on 08/24/2007 12:06:38 AM PDT by Montana Headlines
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"There was no room at any other Canadian neonatal intensive care unit, forcing CHR officials to look south of the border.
Jepp was transported to Benefis hospital in Great Falls last Friday -- making her the fifth Alberta woman to be transferred south of the border this year because of neonatal shortages in Calgary."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Bottom line -- in order to get adequate neonatal care and get around shortages in care in Canada, this couple drove from a city (Calgary) with a population bigger than the whole state of Montana, and came to Great Falls (at 56,000, the third largest city in Montana.)
Which just further illustrates Michael Moore's point about the superiority of the Canadian health-care system compared to America's.
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Exactly right... more evidence of socialized medicine’s failure everywhere it’s been tried. Our system may not be perfect, but folks all over the world come here to get medical services. Why look at the Mexicans. LMAO
Which makes them American citizens automatically while people who actually want to be citizens have to wait years legally. This anchor baby interpretation of the constitution has got to stop.
Sorry about going OT of health care.
Yup, it’s quite amazing that with it being as close to us as Canada, many Americans still think that socialized medicine is all sweetness and light.
If we had shortages because of nationalized health-care here, too, these babies might not have made it, since there would be no place south of the border for these parents to go.
That’s a good point. And it’s important that US Citizens take note of it before Hillary gets her way.
There’s a full court press to bring in nationalized healthcare at the state and federal government levels.
If this should happen, the government will have us right where they want us. Cradle to grave dependency...
The almighty lords giveth, and they taketh away.
Friggin anchor babies...
SCHIP is the Trojan Horse. We cannot let a House version of that bill make it through.
Bush needs to pull out that veto pen if they send him a version that is going to undermine the excellent private insurance plans that most working Americans have.
As my blog-post that I link to above indicates, I actually really like the Canadian national anthem — better than our own, I think (from a musical perspective.)
Somehow, though, I don’t think that most Canadians think of us as standing on guard for them — the benefits of being our neighbor are mostly taken for granted.
Of late, Canadians have more been spurred to hate us. How sad, given our long and close relationship.
Couldn’t agree more. But why would Canadians want to be American citizens? After all, we don’t have free health-care from the government.
See #11
Private medical care would be put on a level with prostitution.
Consenting adults be DAMNED.
Yes, funny thing. There are, of course, many more Canadians who come South on a permanent basis than Americans who head North. Free healtcare notwithstanding.
“Born in the USA” (Canadian quadruplets come to Montana to be born)
what does the piaps and the rest of the lib/dem socialist dopes say about this????
Since they children’s parents speak English and share more cultural values, there is no fuss. They plan to return to Canada, and the provincial government paid for the hospitalization. What’s the issue?
I have a couple of Marine Buddies that could answer that for you. They wanted to be Americans.
That’s my take on it as well. Sorry, but I don’t get that worked up over young adults and illegals not having health insurance. It would be best if they had it, but then that’s their responsibility and not ours. If you look at the group that doesn’t have insurance that doesn’t fall into these categories, the actual number of people without insurance is pretty small. And if you consider that some kids who work are still covered under their parent’s policy, the number gets even smaller. And if you consider that anyone will get service if they present themselves to a hospital in an emergency, that closes the loop.
Nobody is going without health coverage. You and I may be paying too much for some of them, but the idea they’ll just wither up and pass away is fraudulent.
Heh heh heh...
Sorry — I should have put the </sarcasm> sign up on that post.
Deafening silence, of course.
Most of the world’s population would very much like to have the kind of health care provided in America to our uninsured.
You are right that no-one is going without care — very good care at that.
The only thing socialized health care is good for is to catch votes from low rent morons.
Given that SCHIP as proposed by the House would provide health-care to families with incomes approaching 6 figures, there’s nothing low-rent about the vote buying going on.
Way to go Montana!! We know how to get things done :):)
That’s all fine and dandy, but how many 6-figure income families want it? And if it’s socialized health care why is there an income ceiling at all?
Thanks.
Why stop at Montana? They could have gone all the way to Cuba and gotten really, really good neonatal care instead of "adequate" neonatal care.
There are low-cost bare-bones health insurance policies out there being offered that SCHIP would put out of business through competition — the federal government using tax dollars to compete with private insurance companies.
The net effect would be to put the lower end policies out of business. Keep in mind that most health insurance is provided through employers today. Why should a business whose employees make, say, $40 - 50K offer health insurance as a benefit when those employees can get free health care from the government?
Large corporations such as the auto industry say that our lack of nationalized health care puts them at a competitive disadvantage, since their international competitors in Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. don’t have to provide health insurance to their workers. They would love nationalized health care.
As to your last question, the plan is probably eventually to eliminate income ceilings and turn this into a single-payer system run by the feds. They’re doing what they think they can get by with.
Thank God for Bush’s veto pen — may he have the courage to use it.
So do the little Canucks also have birthright citizenship in the USA?
Where will we go if Hilldabeast gets her way with national health care? This says alot about national health care
Precisely. I actually made that point in the Montana Headlines blogpost I linked to in #1
As far as I know, they do — probably dual citizenship until they turn 18 or 21 when they have to choose.
I assume that we’ll all go to Cuba, where health-care is better than in the U.S. — at least according to Michael Moore.
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