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To: Lane3 who wrote (215902)8/17/2007 12:41:44 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 793964
 
Since Great Falls MT is the backup for Canada's government health care system, shouldn't that system cover the total cost of treatment there?

...the unit at Foothills was over capacity with several unexpected pre-term births.

There was no room at any other Canadian neonatal intensive care unit, forcing CHR officials to look south of the border.

I note that Great Falls, with a pop of about 50K, has spare neonatal ICU capacity while Calgary (with over 1M people) and all of Canada (with 33M) doesn't!

But they're efficient on costs up there, eh. No wasted spare capacity.

But in the event America's health care system gets efficiently and humanely reconstructed in the future to be like Canada's is and we, like Canada, then have a shortage of neonatal ICU capacity .... what would Canadians do then?
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