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Socialist Health Care Kills Babies … In More Ways Than One

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  August 3rd, 2010 at 09:00 PM  | 

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Ladies and gentlemen, the people who run the Canadian health care system:

Losing her first baby was devastating enough but having to do it in a crowded waiting room is what angered Christine Handrahan the most.

The 29-year-old Peakes woman was nine weeks pregnant when on July 12 she started bleeding.

Fearing the worst, Handrahan and her husband, Michael, headed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s new emergency room.

There she waited more than three hours, blood seeping out of her jeans, tears rolling down her face as she feared she was losing her baby — or that she might be bleeding to death.

And now, the people who run our healthcare system:

“It’s emotional. It’s such an emotional time for anybody. We tried for a couple of years to conceive a child and then to lose it. It was horrifying.”

Handrahan says nobody at the hospital showed her any compassion.

“They could have given me a room to go in. Not necessarily a room with a bed. Even if it had been their TV room, or their lunchroom, or their closet. That waiting room was jam packed full of people.”

–snip–

“The sort of things we’re looking at is, was she triaged appropriately?” said Henderson.

“And whether or not she was seen in a reasonable time frame and there are certain guidelines . . . and I won’t pussy foot around it we do have trouble meeting those guidelines at times.”

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  • pamela1631

    Are not enough for the sorrow they are feeling.

    damn. that’s not right. not right at all.

    • tara2009

      They don’t care about babies, but they would fight to the death to save a murderer from death in the electric chair.mehpensacola,fl

      • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

        To the Canadian Govt, it was a cost avoidance.

  • partyof1

    “family planning services reduce cost,” according to Pelosi in January 2009.

    Fewer babies, less cost.

  • marinevet03

    based on very unfortunate personal experience, there was nothing the hospital could have done for her. Miscarriages that occur before the 14th week or so are untreatable.

    We got the very best of care (I even wrote a letter to the hospital director thanking him and his staff for the treatment we received), but in the end nothing could have been done.

    So, my point is that she should not have been left to wait there with blood loss, and she should have been diagnosed with miscarriage and then made as comfortable as possible, but let’s not blame socialized medicine for something that could not have been prevented.

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

      I sympathize with your personal loss – I hope you have been able to find comfort and find your way through the stages of grieving.

      Turning to the diary, without knowing an accurate history, you really can’t tell the sequence of events or whether an earlier intervention might have made a difference before the miscarriage became inevitable through institutional neglect.

      Besides, the point of the article was not to speculate on whether her baby could have been saved even with optimal care, but rather to demonstrate that Canadian socialized medicine decision-makers made choices (i.e. rationing) resulting in access to necessary medical services not being available to this expectant mother when she needed them.

      It’s the shortages and unavailabity of services that is being laid at the doorstep of socialized medicine, as this is a constantly repeating theme of government-run medicine thoughout the world. This is just another and heart-rending example of that.

    • kosmetar

      Your last line doesn’t make sense “but let?s not blame socialized medicine for something that could not have been prevented” No where in the story do I get that she blames the hospital for the miscarriages, The problem is in the care she recieved for the bleeding. Think about it your sitting across from a woman in the waiting room who is crying and bleeding and nobody seems to care. Yes lets blame socialized medicine I’ve heard these stories from Canada and the UK all to often.

  • wayneepalmer

    Read Daschle’s book on Health care, Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich.

    Watch Ted Turner on population control.

    The most effective way to kill off excess people is to tell their neighbors they will have to pay to keep them alive.