{"id":4999,"date":"2009-06-29T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2009-06-29T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T12:46:34","slug":"how-to-make-single-payer-healthcare-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Single-Payer Healthcare Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key lesson:\u00a0 Make sure <a href=\"http:\/\/cp24.com\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20090626\/090626_BABY_PASSPORTS\/20090626\/?hub=CP24Home\">there&#8217;s a free healthcare market next door<\/a> for when your own system can&#8217;t handle things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don&#8217;t have passports.Ava Stinson was born Thursday at St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital, 14 weeks premature.<\/p>\n<p>A provincewide search for an open neonatal intensive care unit bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two pound, four ounce baby to Buffalo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For good, grim entertainment, ask the Norwegians &#8211; who still have some private healthcare &#8211; about the Swedes (who have none) who come across the border to actually <em>get <\/em>healthcare they can&#8217;t find in their own single-payer system.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/28\/canadacare-sends-baby-to-us-for-treatment\/\">Ed<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key lesson:\u00a0 Make sure there&#8217;s a free healthcare market next door for when your own system can&#8217;t handle things: A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don&#8217;t have passports.Ava [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}