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Remember That Canadian Healthcare We were Supposed to Emulate?

From The Canadian Press: [1]

HAMILTON— A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don’t have passports.

Ava Stinson was born Thursday at St. Joseph’s Hospital, 14 weeks premature.

A provincewide search for an open neonatal intensive care unit bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two pound, four ounce baby to Buffalo.

Her parents Natalie Paquette and Richard Stinson couldn’t follow their child because as of June 1, a passport is required to cross the border into the United States.

Now of course, from our own left we’re going to hear about the passport situation being stupid.  It goes without saying, however, that that entire situation would not have come to pass but for a substandard health care system in Canada.

What we have here, is a graphic example of what happens when we limit access to health care. Fortunate for that baby, and those parents, there is no such system yet here in these United States.  And being in Hamilton, they were close enough to the border to get to a stateside hospital.

I live near Buffalo myself.  Trust me, dear reader, when I tell you that this is not an unusual occurrence, in terms of people coming across the border because the Canadian system turned them away .

Just something to keep in mind as we listen to the Democrats trying to sell us  on government health care.