Ed Morrissey gets this honor in his post about CanadaCare sending a premature baby over the border to get care here in the US because they don’t have the room up there. (imagine that)
The original article chooses not to discuss the merits of US health care vs Candian by noting that
Thankfully — and this doesn’t mean that the American system is better (after all, at least the couple and their baby are guaranteed care up here, thanks to our public system, even if it’s not perfect) — there was an opening south of the border.
Ed notes:
Well, it’s impossible to look at this situation without seeing the relative merits of the American and Canadian systems. First, the child would have gotten care in the US, too, regardless of insurance status. People get emergency care regardless in this country. There is a difference between health insurance and access to care that some people elide for purposes of political argument. No one gets turned away from emergency care for lack of ability to pay.
Yes – there IS a difference between having health insurance and getting health care.
American health care is better than Canadian health care because ours is run by independent enterprises and not the government.
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