MACK DADDY wrote:
> On May 8, 11:58 am, Fenwick Arms <kitc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> eldorado wrote:
>>> Riki Tiki Tavi <ti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> repeating republican talking
>>> points stated:
>>>> I'm talking about why Canucks stream south to get surgery HERE!
>>> The question should also be asked why so many Americans stream north
for
>>> healthcare?
>> They don't, you s***bag liar:
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300939,00.html
>>
>> Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it's the United
>> States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting
>> their highly touted government healthcare system.
>>
>> "I'm a born-bred Canadian, as well as my daughter and son, and I'm
>> ashamed," Jill Irvine told FOX News. Irvine's daughter, Carri Ash, is
>> one of at least 40 mothers or their babies who've been airlifted from
>> British Columbia to the U.S. this year because Canadian hospitals
didn't
>> have room for the preemies in their neonatal units.
>>
>> "It's a big number and bigger than the previous capacity of the system
>> to deal with it," said Adrian Dix, a British Columbia legislator, told
>> FOXNews.com. "So when that happens, you can't have a waiting list for a
>> mother having the baby. She just has the baby."
>>
>> The mothers have been flown to hospitals in Seattle, Everett, Wash.,
and
>> Spokane, Wash., to receive treatment, as well as hospitals in the
>> neighboring province of Alberta, Dix said. Three mothers were airlifted
>> in the first weekend of October alone, including Carri Ash.
>>
>> "I just want to go home and see my kids," she said from her Seattle
>> hospital bed. "I think it's stupid I have to be here."
>>
>> Canada's socialized health care system, hailed as a model by Michael
>> Moore in his do***entary, "Sicko," is hurting, government officials
>> admit, citing not enough money for more equipment and staff to handle
>> high risk births.
>>
>> Sarah Plank, a spokeswoman for the British Columbia Ministry of Health,
>> said a spike in high risk and premature births coupled with the lack of
>> trained nurses prompted the surge in mothers heading across the border
>> for better care.
>>
>> "The number of transfers in previous years has been quite low," Plank
>> told FOXNews.com. "Before this recent spike we went for more than a
year
>> with no transfers to the U.S., so this is something that is happening
in
>> other provinces as well."
>>
>> Critics say these border crossings highlight the dangers of a
>> government-run health care system.
>>
>> "The Canadian healthcare system has used the United States as a safety
>> net for years," said Michael Turner of the Cato Institute. "In fact,
>> overall about one out of every seven Canadian physicians sends someone
>> to the United States every year for treatment."
>>
>>
http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/09/03/canadians-running-to-us-for-he...
>>
>> Canadians Running to U.S. for Health Care
>> Canada, we are constantly being told by single-payer advocates, is a
>> model social democracy with a medical delivery system that we should
>> envy. Oddly, the people who make such claims never want to answer a
>> question that Bill Steigerwald reiterates in a recent column:
>>
>> If Canada’s national health care system is so dang wonderful, why are
so
>> many Canadians coming to America to pay for their own medical care?
>>
>> And it’s not only pregnant women, like the one who recently had to
drive
>> to Montana to have her baby, who cross into the U.S. on a daily basis
>> seeking health care. Thus, Steigerwald inquires further:
>>
>> Why is the hip replacement center of Canada in Ohio–at the Cleveland
>> Clinic, where 10% of its international patients are Canadians … Why is
>> Brain and Spine Center in Buffalo serving about 10 border-crossing
>> Canadians a week?
>>
>> By way of answering his own questions, Steigerwald provides the
>> following datum:
>>
>> Number of Canadians on waiting lists for referrals to specialists or
for
>> medical services–875,000.
>>
>> It would appear that Canadians with sufficient financial means are
>> seeking medical treatment in a country where such waiting lists exist
>> only in the the fond dreams of single-payer advocates.
>>
>> And what about the Canadians who don’t have the money to come here for
>> care? I guess they just pray that their illnesses don’t kill them
before
>> the vaunted Canadian system can fit them in.
>
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> You still failed to address the people
**** OFF!
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