Jasen Comstock

sds:

hilker:

“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.”“

while i agree that the current system is unsustainable, it’s for significantly different reasons. in such single-payer systems, there isn’t always room for the individual.

There’s a reason thousands of Canadians cross the border every year for urgent care.

The reason being, that they can afford it.