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I'm guessing they probably will never consider the US again as a vacation destination!
People from countries with reasonable health care costs should be warned by their government's state departments when traveling to our country. Visiting the US may cause bankruptcy.
This isn't even unusual. I met a British man who was bitten by a recluse spider and wound up with an $80k hospital bill for his antibiotics. I imagine there are many stories such as this that do not make the news.
So you're saying the news agency is misreporting the facts?
"Huculak told CTV there was no "high-risk pregnancy," she just had a bladder infection that caused some bleeding. Her doctor in Saskatchewan explained to Blue Cross that the infection didn't have anything to do with the early labor, but it didn't change the company's decision not to pay."
The report said Canada had the second-highest rate of first-day infant mortality in the industrialized world, with roughly 900 babies — or 2.4 per 1,000 births — ending in early tragedy. Only the United States posted a higher number of babies who die within their first 24 hours on earth, with 11,300 or 2.6 per 1,000 births.
I bolded the relative part.
also....ouch. apparently we should ignore that whole "top notch medical" thing.....
And why, pray tell, did not the bleeding heart Canadians extract their rare flower who was being held captive on an Hawaiian Island by the evil American medical cartel?
They tried, they couldn't get the flight apparently.
So if the bill would have been say something ridiculously slow, like
$10
You'd still expect government to pickup the tab?
What part of universal healthcare do you not understand?
Its not free-we would all pay for it in taxes, but its resulted in some top notch healthcare systems around the world, whose average care and costs are better then ours.
Yes I know, you can find some cancer we do better at. But if you don't cherry pick data we suck.
Only the United States posted a higher number of babies who die within their first 24 hours on earth, with 11,300 or 2.6 per 1,000 births.
Over twice the mortality rate as Canada, so the title was accurate as all get-out with the U.S. being the WORST in the developed world.
I bet that isn't what you wanted to see and you read your links before posting them next time, eh?
Not sure if this study in particular had the same issue but in the past, when comparing other countries to North American infant mortality rates, the biggest issue was how other countries determined their mortality rates.
This article does a decent job of explaining the complexity. So I wouldn't put too much stock into either the US or Canada's supposed high rate because the it's deceiving. It lists the reasons why these statistics aren't generally accurate.
Infant and neonatal mortality rates are complex, multifactorial end-points that oversimplify heterogeneous inputs, many of which have no relation to health care at all. Moreover, these statistics gleaned from the widely varied countries of the world are plagued by inconsistencies, problematic definitions, and gross inaccuracies, all of which disadvantage the ranking of the U.S., where accuracy is paramount. Even though Oestergaard’s WHO report lists several “challenges and limitations” in comparing neonatal mortality rates, sensationalized headlines continue to rage about the supposedly poor showing of the United States.
Canada's health insurance is not stupid enough to be held to ransom by America 'greed without accountability' so they cover you only for what they would pay were the same issue to happen in Canada.
The optional purchased Travel Insurance company in question is this one:
My retirement benefits program includes travel insurance for 'Out of Province' which means it's good anywhere in the world and right there in the small print with triple asterisks beside it is the disclaimer saying something like "Should you experience a medical emergency event in the United States; if condition is stabilized so as travel is medically possible, we will arrange a med-flight to evacuate/return you to Canada" AND that my friends, is an AMERICAN insurance agency!
There is no such rider in the event I experience a problem anywhere else in the world.
Get that? "Should you have a problem in the U.S. we'll pay whatever it costs to get your azz out of there pronto!" An American insurer no less.
Preferring as you do to allow a third and fourth party to screw with your well being has got to be the dumbest thing you embrace when you scream about freedoms and rights to the extent you do. Willingly placing yourselves into the shylock arena of insurance cubicle denizens and hospital profiteers is anything BUT libertarian in nature.
Keep up with the nonsense though; it's entertaining, I'll give you that.
It will be settled for much less. With that said, My retirement insurance covers me any where also and I pay about $100 per mo. Anthem BCBS. never got a bill in my life no matter what insurance I had at the time.
And our insurance companies usually only pay the same that the government would be paying..
Which is why I dont understand the big push to nationalize health insurance saying it would be cheaper...
it wont be.. Treatments have a cost associated to them and its dictated by zip code and procedural code, and whos paying the bill is immaterial.
People are being disillusioned by Obama care as we speak!
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