Posted on 10/04/2007 5:30:31 AM PDT by scooter2
SEATTLE -- A problem in Canada's hospitals is sending scores of pregnant women south of the border to have their babies.
Carri Ash of Chilliwack, B.C. was sent to the U.S. to have her baby after her water broke on Sunday, ten weeks ahead of schedule.
"And they came in and said 'you're going to Seattle,'" she said.
Ash's hospital couldn't handle the high-risk pregnancy. Doctors searched for another hospital bed, but even hospitals in Vancouver, B.C. didn't have a neo-natal bed.
"So two provinces didn't have enough room, so I have to go to another country," said Ash.
Ash was sent to Swedish Medical Center where, nurses told KOMO 4 News, five Canadian women have come to have their babies in the past six weeks. Some were even airlifted at up to $5,000 per flight.
And a woman from Calgary, B.C., one of the wealthiest cities in Canada, had to travel to Montana to give birth to her identical quadruplets.
"We always regret when we have to transfer a baby or mother to another jurisdiction for care," said Canada's Health Minister George Abbott.
Aidan Nassey was born premature in Canada and developed breathing problems before his mother could even hold him.
"It was terrifying. And he was taken away and that was it," said Courtney Nassey, his mother.
There wasn't a hospital in western Canada that could take in Aidan, and a helicopter had to rush them to Seattle.
Vicki Irvine crossed the border to see her daughter, Carri Ash, give birth.
"You can't even have a baby near home. It's horrible," she said.
Irvine and Ash are questioning Canada's priorities when it comes to health care spending.
"I think it's ridiculous that we can have the Olympics but not enough beds so I can have a baby," said Ash.
The family says there is one benefit to their neo-natal nightmare -- the newborn will have dual citizenship and, so far, they like what they see on this side of the border.
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Hillary will put a stop to this. Before long we’ll be sending women to Mexico th give birth.
The American Government is kidnapping Canadian women and FORCING them to give birth here?
No one is being FORCED to have a baby in America.
Canada is refusing to permit Canadian women FROM giving birth there even though there is socialized medicine in Canada.
Wonder if we are getting any of Canada’s immigrant population (it’s a two-fer, they are they tied to America by the anchor baby syndrome).
More U.S. Citizens!
“Free” healthcare. Worth every penny you pay for it......
Don't fear for your ego, George. When the U.S. gets socialized medicine, the high-risk babies can just die, and some of the mothers, too.
Yep. Welcome to HillaryCare.
Yikes.
I wonder if Canada will be paying for these births? Or must U.S. taxpayers do so, as we do with the rest of the world who avail themselves of our health care.
In the future, they will determine that this is not feasible because America under socialized medicine is also horribly backlogged (even for members of the NAUSSR).
So high risk pregnancies like these will have to be aborted for the protection of The State.
We cannot allow this to happen here! Canadians would then have nowhere to go!............
The system has nothing to do with care.
No one should discuss health care without making clear the difference between INSURANCE and CARE and PAYMENT. They are not directly related.
Where will we go if Hillary wins?
We here in the US actually DO have UNIVERSAL health care! It’s just that the Dhimmikratz won’t admit it!.............
Cuba...........
Gee, I wonder if they will be U.S. Citizens? Will these Canadians claim their child is a U.S. Citizen?
Will Hillary give these kids $5000 a piece?
And yet there are those who hold up the Canadian system as the ideal in twenty-first century health care!
That socialised medicine’s a real winner!!!
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