Free Health Care….you get what you pay for

This story is interesting on a couple of levels.

First, identical quads? That’s taking efficiency (4 kids from 1 zygote) to a ridiculous level.

Second, the children were going to be delivered 2 months premature and in need of neonatal intensive care. Unfortunately, the virtues of socialized medicine weren’t as evident in practice as they are portrayed to be in Democratic presidential debates or Michael Moore films:

A medical team and space for the babies had been organised for the Jepp family at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary but several other babies were born unexpectedly early, filling the neonatal intensive care unit.

Health officials said they checked every other neonatal intensive care unit in Canada but none had space.

And what metropolis could provide the care unavailable in Calgary (pop. 1,079,310) or the whole of the great north? Why it was that well known center of advanced medicine in the US…the megalopolis of Great Falls, Montana (pop. 56,690).

I know data is not the plural of anecdote but there’s something seriously wrong when the health care system in a nation of 33 million people cannot absorb 4 addition premature births without outsourcing it to the land of evil for profit medicine.

*By the way, the DrewM. thing was necessitated by some quirk in the login process. The M. is actually part of my name and thus easily remembered by me and not just an homage to the legendary Jack M.

posted by DrewM. at 11:25 AM

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