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 ...
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.
You need to get your facts right. Read http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=41ccae74-8325-449a-b89f-e68957ca25ae&k=79546
Canadian Health Region is picking up the tab for the transportation of the Jepp’s and now their new babies to and from the States. I would suspect, as well, that CHR is picking up the tab for all medical costs and am waiting for a response from the author of the article about that.
I would suggest that you also read the article at this site: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/health/21patient.html in order to learn about the fact that 85,000 Americans a year go abroad for affordable healthcare - they can’t afford the healthcare in the US but on the other hand there are those who can not afford either to travel or healthcare.
It is shameful especially, to my way of thinking, that those who call themselves Christians are so opposed to universal healthcare.
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