http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/28/canadacare-sends-baby-to-us-for-treatment/
This is a good article to expose the Canadian mess called healthcare. Hotair goes sideways on the issue of border crossing, but overall it is a good example of what we are going to face here. Which begs the question, where in ten years will the Canadians send their sick?
The story about the premature baby getting no care in Canada (no neonatal beds available and none on the horizon) and being sent to N.Y. so it’s life will be saved is horrifying. How can you complain about a system, expensive or not, that will take everyone, even foreigners, and save them!
Now I’m going to disagree with Hotair over their wish for an exemption for the parents, who do not have a passport, to come with the baby. As I understand it as of June 1st we finally demanded passports from anyone crossing the border. Apparently, the father has a criminal record. Oh well, don’t commit crime! Wasn’t this the whole point of the new law? Didn’t Hotair and others rail against criminals being allowed across the border from both sides? It is a law of nature that any good idea will have the occasional hiccup. The key is not letting the hiccups become the rule rather than the exception.
As the story highlights, government run healthcare is an example of the hiccup becoming the rule.