How Canada’s Health Care System Survives: They Routinely Ship Patients To America
Liberals are fond of pointing to Canada as a way that health care should be done. But it’s worth noting that without America’s free market system with readily available care available to take on overflow from Canada thanks to rationing and inefficiency Canada’s health care system would probably collapse.
Health Reform: A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn’t get in the system we’re told we should emulate. Cost-effective care? In Canada, as elsewhere, you get what you pay for.
Ava Isabella Stinson was born last Thursday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. Weighing only two pounds, she was born 13 weeks premature and needed some very special care. Unfortunately, there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph’s—or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario, it seems.
Canada’s perfectly planned and cost-effective system had no room at the inn for Ava, who of necessity had to be sent across the border to a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital to suffer under our chaotic and costly system. She had no time to be put on a Canadian waiting list. She got the care she needed at an American hospital under a system President Obama has labeled “unsustainable.”
Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit reports Ava’s case is not unusual. He reports that Hamilton’s neonatal intensive care unit is closed to new admissions half the time. Special-needs infants are sent elsewhere and usually to the U.S.
If I were Canadian, I’d be hoping that America didn’t go to government health care. Because as you can see above, America serves as a pressure relief valve for Canada’s system. Not to mention the government health care systems of country around the world.
