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August 20, 2007
Baby It Ain’t Free
What a national healthcare system can cost you.
by Tina Grazier
Last week a Canadian woman gave birth to identical quadruplets…in Great Falls, Montana:
For a community our size, we are blessed to have big-city care for our new arrivals. *** It's mind-boggling that no hospital in a cosmopolitan, oil-rich city the size of Calgary — much less any other hospital in Canada — could deliver the Jepp sisters. *** Karen Jepp was flown to Great Falls after Calgary's Foothills Medical Centre called every high-level NICU unit in Canada in search of a hospital that could deliver the girls, reported The Globe and Mail newspaper Thursday. The province of Ontario had 200 such beds, but couldn't handle four babies together, the newspaper reported. *** Jepp was the fifth Alberta woman sent to Benefis this year because of NICU shortages in Canada.
If that story doesn’t chill your bones regarding national healthcare systems try this out of The Times in London:
Family doctors have been warned that unless they agree to open at evenings and on Saturdays, private companies will be contracted to take over their practices. A letter sent to local NHS organisations has ordered them to improve surgeries’ responsiveness to the public, along with people’s access to and choice of GP services. This includes the option of seeking alternative providers, including private companies, instead of GPs.
Ve haf vays to deal mit family doctors who refuse to virk nights and Saturdays…
Posted by Post Scripts at August 20, 2007 12:03 AM
Comments
I can't make up my mind if that kid's face looks really, really cute or more like "Chucky" scarey! Good story. We don't need or want socialized medicine.
Posted by: Jack at August 22, 2007 08:57 AM
I can't make up my mind if that kid's face looks really, really cute or more like "Chucky"...
I can't either...are those real teeth or did they dress him up for Halloween?
Posted by: Tina at August 22, 2007 09:00 PM
Oh, he also appears to have tatoos on his widdle face!!?!?
Posted by: Tina at August 22, 2007 09:02 PM