The Liberal Blame Game on Health Care
The Liberal media is at it again. In this article, CP24- Parents separated from baby after transfer to US hospital because they lack passports - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television, they only give information they want you to know and make it look as if the USA is this horrible country keeping families apart.
What they didn’t tell you is that Stinson has a criminal record. But since this is a real medical crisis you would think that the US and Canada could agree to temporary measures that would allow the parents to cross the border, even if under embassy supervision and security, to join their child.
But why is this reporter putting the blame on the USA? The real problem is access to the appropriate care in Canada with the Canadian healthcare system.
The entire country of Canada does not have enough neonatal intensive care beds precisely because of the rationing and the government run healthcare system. Sure they guarantee care, but in this case, they had to transfer across the border to the USA because we actually work on a free market system of supply and demand.
Let’s think about the healthcare system that caused this problem and compare it to the USA. This child would have gotten care in the US regardless of insurance status. Everyone in the USA gets emergency care regardless if they can pay. There is a difference between health insurance and access to care that some people elide for purposes of political argument. With EMTALA laws, no one in the USA gets turned away from emergency care for lack of ability to pay and this includes illegal aliens.
The question the reporter should have asked is why there wasn’t a NICU bed for the child in the entire country of Canada? The simple answer is that the government of Canada won’t pay for more. Socialized medicine doesn’t exist to expand supply to meet demand as we do in the United States. Their single-payer system exists to ration care as a cost-saving mechanism. In our free-market system, supply expands to meet demand, which is exactly why Canada was able to subcontract care out to a US hospital and save this child’s life.
The author writes as if it was mere luck that an NICU bed happened to be open when in actuality, the bed was available because of the function of our superior healthcare system.
These parents were separated from their child because of the fault of the Canadian government and their healthcare system.
This was not the fault of the US or our rules governing who can enter our country without a passport.
This should be taken as a key teaching point for all of congress and Americans as the Obama administration attempts to push a systemic overhaul of the US health-care system that will cost trillions and push us towards the same kind of single-payer system that Canada has.
Where would this child have been if the USA wasn’t there to once again save another country from their own reckless policies?
What they didn’t tell you is that Stinson has a criminal record. But since this is a real medical crisis you would think that the US and Canada could agree to temporary measures that would allow the parents to cross the border, even if under embassy supervision and security, to join their child.
But why is this reporter putting the blame on the USA? The real problem is access to the appropriate care in Canada with the Canadian healthcare system.
The entire country of Canada does not have enough neonatal intensive care beds precisely because of the rationing and the government run healthcare system. Sure they guarantee care, but in this case, they had to transfer across the border to the USA because we actually work on a free market system of supply and demand.
Let’s think about the healthcare system that caused this problem and compare it to the USA. This child would have gotten care in the US regardless of insurance status. Everyone in the USA gets emergency care regardless if they can pay. There is a difference between health insurance and access to care that some people elide for purposes of political argument. With EMTALA laws, no one in the USA gets turned away from emergency care for lack of ability to pay and this includes illegal aliens.
The question the reporter should have asked is why there wasn’t a NICU bed for the child in the entire country of Canada? The simple answer is that the government of Canada won’t pay for more. Socialized medicine doesn’t exist to expand supply to meet demand as we do in the United States. Their single-payer system exists to ration care as a cost-saving mechanism. In our free-market system, supply expands to meet demand, which is exactly why Canada was able to subcontract care out to a US hospital and save this child’s life.
The author writes as if it was mere luck that an NICU bed happened to be open when in actuality, the bed was available because of the function of our superior healthcare system.
These parents were separated from their child because of the fault of the Canadian government and their healthcare system.
This was not the fault of the US or our rules governing who can enter our country without a passport.
This should be taken as a key teaching point for all of congress and Americans as the Obama administration attempts to push a systemic overhaul of the US health-care system that will cost trillions and push us towards the same kind of single-payer system that Canada has.
Where would this child have been if the USA wasn’t there to once again save another country from their own reckless policies?
Labels: Canada, healthcare, liberal agenda, Obama
posted by Anonymous at 5:42 AM
3 Comments:
But I'm sure it was ok with you when the Bush/Cheney regime decided to help Iraq extricate itself of its evil leader, eh?
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Stick to the topic if your shallow brain allows you to do so.
Shucks, cant we all just get along, even if just for a day?
Happy (early) July 4th to both sides of the aisle!
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