I bet these 150 Canadians would disagree with Mr. Clinton and Glasseye.
One can also see stories of premature Canadian babies being born in Bellingham, WA and Whitefish Montana and across the northern tier of states. There are Canadian children alive today, because of this "substandard care," I bet their parents thank God for their neighbor's sharing of such substandard care.
I googled for stories and articles looking for Americans who crossed over for life saving care, but I can't find any.
LISA PRIEST
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Mar. 30, 2009 02:47PM EDT
More than 150 critically ill Canadians – many with life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages – have been rushed to the United States since the spring of 2006 because they could not obtain intensive-care beds here.
Before patients with bleeding in or outside the brain have been whisked through U.S. operating-room doors, some have languished for as long as eight hours in Canadian emergency wards while health-care workers scrambled to locate care.
The waits, in some instances, have had devastating consequences.
“There have been very serious health-care problems that have arisen in neurosurgical patients because of the lack of ability to attain timely transport to expert neurosurgical centres in Ontario,” said R. Loch Macdonald, chief of the division of neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Those problems, he said, include “brain injury or brain damage that could have been prevented by earlier treatment.”
Ontario has the worst problem, though it is not alone.
The rest of the article can be found here.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article661794.ece