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August 18, 2007
Giving Birth Under Socialized Medicine
Posted by Dave Blount at August 18, 2007 11:11 AM
Quadruplets in Canada? Bad idea:
A Canadian woman has given birth to extremely rare identical quadruplets.
The four girls were born at a US hospital because there was no space available at Canadian neonatal intensive care units. […]
Health officials said they checked every other neonatal intensive care unit in Canada but none had space.
This despite Canada's birthrate having fallen to historic lows.
Canadians are lucky now: they've got a free country right next door. After they get done paying for their "free" healthcare with exorbitant taxation, they have to cross the border and pay again down here, but at least they get healthcare. If Dems succeed in socializing medicine here too, the poor Canadians will have to drive all the way to Mexico.
Meanwhile in Britain, where bureauweenies nationalized healthcare long ago:
A young mother had to deliver her own baby in the lavatory of a flagship hospital because there were no trained midwives available.
Surveyor Catherine Brown had made the agonising decision to undergo a chemically-induced abortion after being told her 18-week pregnancy was risking her life.
But when the time came to give birth she was on an ear, nose and throat ward and had only her mother to help her through the ordeal. Her premature son Edward died in her arms minutes later.
The traumatised mother-of-one said: "I just howled and howled. I remember sitting there looking at him and thinking, 'What do I do next?'. I just sat there on the toilet looking at my dead baby.
"It was dreadful — a terrible nightmare. Then I started crying my eyes out and repeating, 'I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry'. I still can't believe the hospital had no trained staff who could help me."
To compound Miss Brown's agony, the body of her child was almost discarded with hospital waste. […]
Her mother spoke of her fears that she was going to lose her daughter as well as her grandson, because she was bleeding so heavily.
"I was running around frantically trying to find gas and air for her and pleaded with nurses, who seemed very matter of fact, to assist," she said.
"The staff I did find told me they did not have the training to help. Catherine was left to deliver the baby alone with just me for help before cleaning herself up and going back to bed. It was horrific."
But their trauma was still not over. Miss Brown said staff almost took Edward's remains away for disposal despite her informing the hospital she wanted to hold a funeral.
Babies are only babies if liberal bureaucrats say they're babies. Otherwise, they're medical waste.
In related news, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the Breck Girl, has announced that there is a "consensus" on the issue of socialized medicine, just like with global warming. She accused competing presidential candidates Shrillary and Osama Obama of not pushing for it aggressively enough.
On tips from V the K and Steve.
