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Even the recent birth of identical quadruplets
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That suggests that's a regular everyday occurence that every hospital should be ready to deal with. When in fact you are dealing with an extremely complicated birth and very likely post natal complications for the babies.
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Why? Hospitals in Calgary were 'at full capacity'.
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No. Hospitals in Calgary were not at full capacity. southern Alberta's only neonatal intensive care unit was, however, full. The highly specialised care needed was not available for four babies in one go. For the kind of care those babies were likely to need, we are looking at a serious spike in numbers with 4. Fortunately, they were near enough to the states to drive across. Presumably had they been further in the other direction they'd have driven to Montreal or something.
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The two ways to manage socialized health care are to tax more, and to restrict access to care. Canada does both.
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One extraordinary case does not a trend make. Figures to back up that assertion would be appreciated.
[edit] I just want to reiterate the first point i made in this post. *Even* the recent birth of quadruplets.....this is being offered as evidence of the perils of socialised medicine? i'm sat here now, listening to BBC news on the radio and they've just talked about this woman giving birth to "rare" quadruplets. This makes international news. Not that it was a Canadian in America, but that she had quadruplets. [/edit]