More Universal (Socialized) Health Care Failure Lessons

I’ve written about the lessons which can be learned from the ideological, utopian visionary programs for universal health care. One of the more recent posts was titled Stop Universal Health Care Now! - Learn from Wisconsin.  Another recent post was titled Universal Health Care - It’s Not Just Maine’s Program That Fails, and another noted the abject failure of the government’s health care program for American Indians, which was titled Keep the Government Out of Health Care, or “Don’t Get Sick After June.”

Here’s the most recent lesson, from our Canadian friends, who have been suffering under the Canadian version of socialized health care for some time.

A critically ill Hamilton preemie turned away from McMaster Children’s Hospital…Hamilton’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was full when Ava Isabella Stinson was born 14 weeks premature at St. Joseph’s Hospital Thursday at 12:24 p.m.

A provincewide search for an open NICU bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two-pound, four-ounce preemie to Buffalo that evening…

A second area mom has also been separated from her children since being turned away from McMaster’s NICU, which is closed to new admissions about 50 per cent of the time.

Oh, and the parents of the preemies cannot be with their newborns because of the draconian new passport rules for moving between the borders of Canada and the United States.

Can Americans not learn from these lessons?

Parents separated from ill preemie

Via a Mark Steyn post at The Corner, wherein Steyn notes this.

Well, it would be unreasonable to expect Hamilton, a city of half-a-million people just down the road from Canada’s largest city (Greater Toronto Area, five-and-a-half million) in the most densely populated part of Canada’s most populous province (Ontario, 13 million people) to be able to offer the same level of neonatal care as Buffalo, a post-industrial ruin in steep population decline for half-a-century…Once Buffalo enjoys the benefits of Hamilton-level health care, I wonder where Ontario will be shipping the preemies to. Costa Rica?

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