CanadaCare sends baby to US for treatment (Where can they go after ObamaCare?)

Hotair ^ | 6/27/2009 | Ed Morrissey

[Let's Roll]

It’s gonna be survival of the fittest.

[OrangeHoof]

I’ve said this for years. When America adopts Canada’s health care system, where will Canadians go to find quality health care?

I hope it’s in a seceded Texas.

Really, this whole economy is teed up like a hanging curveball for whichever state wants to break from the union and be the lone source of capitalism in the hemisphere.

[hinckley buzzard]

In recent years, major clinics in the US have handled thousands of sick Canadians. Five to ten thousand each annually at Mayo in Minneapolis, Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore; not to mention countless visits across the border at smaller facilities.

There is no healthcare crisis in the US that the free market can't handle. It's all BS, people.

[hinckley buzzard]

America is as bad as Canada in this story.

Glad to see you really focussed on the issue at hand and didn't get distracted by incidental Bullsh*t.

[ballplayer]

Under Obama Care they will come to the same Place, Here, the Only difference will be that YOU will pay for their care

[GraceCoolidge]

Thankfully — and this doesn’t mean that the American system is better (after all, at least the couple and their baby are guaranteed care up here, thanks to our public system, even if it’s not perfect) — there was an opening south of the border.

If they were "guaranteed care up here" what are they doing in Buffalo? It seems like the "guarantee" of Canadian medical care was pretty worthless. Canada was only able to fulfill their "guarantee" because of the mean old USA.

[maica]

In British Columbia, the “guarentee” includes contracts between hospitals in Seattle and the govt of BC for so many heart procedures, so many high risk births, so many neurological emergencies, etc per year.

Even with these contracts, British Columbians disparage the American system because it is ‘profit-based.’

They just do not get it that medical personnel are not slaves to the government, and will not always be present when needed in Canada.

[GraceCoolidge]

Yes, I did know that the Canadian system contracts with the US for some care. The part of the sentence that struck me was that this couple supposedly was guaranteed care "up here." I don't know how many parents would sign on for a "guarantee" that means your critically ill newborn is going to be shipped off to another country for care, especially when they can't follow. If Obama went around touting his plan by saying, "If we run out of beds here, we are going to send you to hospital in another country," I don't think many Americans would be very enthusiastic.

I first read about this story in a Mark Steyn post on the NRO blog. He ended by asking where the Canadians will send their patients when the US system fills up-- he asked, Costa Rica? Then he concluded by saying "we now return to your 24/7 Michael Jackson coverage."

[eleni121]

He’s got all kinds of creepy people on board who have infiltrated the institutions of our society including this sick woman: Simone Campbell a nun!

http://www.networklobby.org/about/Simone_bio1-07.htm

[Springman]

Ping.

[maica]

I worked in BC for 20 years and have been doing my best to tell people what ‘single payer’ means when it is the only game in town.

I wish for every time a talk show host mentions the name “Michael Jackson” or “Mark Sanford” or “titillation of the day” they would mention that there is not enough “care” to treat everybody in Canada, so Canadians have to come here.

I was a NICU nurse, so I am particularly sensitive to the rationing of beds in that area, which causes families to be separated just when family support is the most important thing that the new parents need, and bonding with the baby is the most important, non-technical thing that the baby needs.

It is just revolting that the number of NICU beds are limited!!!!

Americans assume that today’s quality of care will continue with Obamacare and it will be ‘free.’

[Catholic Canadian]

Don’t fool yourself, our healthcare is absolute crap.

[a fool in paradise]

But I’ve had people on FR swear that the number of Canadians coming to America is overstated and that the few celebrities who’ve come out to admit that they came here for quicker services “weren’t eligible anymore for Canadian coverage” (paraphrase).

[Shimmer1]

“(after all, at least the couple and their baby are guaranteed care up here, thanks to our public system, even if it’s not perfect)”

Excuse me, what is “guaranteed care” if you can’t get care??