There seems to be a lot of talk about the women having identical quadruplets here in Montana the other day. I really have to wonder though, if Canada's single payer health care system that so many in the US want to emulate, is so great, why did these people have to drive down to the US to have these babies? If the US had the same system would there have been anyplace for this couple to go yo have these babies? I wonder.
Then when you do look at government run health care in the US, the Indian Health Service jumps right out at you. Sen. Jon Tester was just at a meeting about that situation in Crow Agency the other day. The IHS is chronically underfunded they decided and needs more funding. Will it happen? I don't know but it does point out the fact that government run health care doesn't seem to cut the mustard.
I'm not saying I have the answer here. Insurance rates are out of this world and almost completely unaffordable by the average person yet Governments don't seem to be able to do the job either chronically underfunding health care. I wonder what the answer is going to be, I really wonder.
You often wonder where the energy for someone to make the decisions that they make comes from. Matthew Shipp
Friday, August 17. 2007
I Wonder
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I saw a BBC report on the births, and they say that the hospitals with neo-natal intensive care units nearest the couple in Canada were full and could not accommodate them.
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Montannie
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2007-08-17 17:43
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I heard that the hospitals in the area were full too. If the government is running health care for its citizens, isn't it there responsibility to provide enough hospital beds for its citizens?
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Sarpy Sam
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2007-08-18 07:49
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And did you know that it cost the Alberta government $30,000.00 a day in Great Falls as opposed to the $11,000.00 a day if they had been born in Calgary? STUPID!
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Linda
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2007-08-18 17:04
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