Canada also pays these people's hospital bills, right here in the US. Do you know how much a NICU baby cost? Now times that by 4.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...ses-quads.html

It says the following:
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The problem with this is that the service was not available in Canada. Its like the old joke "if we had some eggs we could have some ham and eggs if we had any ham". Probably the reason the service was not available was because the government would not fund enough of it to actually pay for the service.

You are talking the difference here between a city if in the US would have been in the top ten cities vs a city whos population was less than 6% of the Canadian city. I would rather know that I could have the service rather than I couldn't have the service but if I could I wouldn't have to pay as much for it.

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Is this a common occurence in Calgary, nathan....or an odd occurence?? And that matters when trying to analyze optimal medical plans. And I wonder if anyone in the US found themselves in a similar circumstance where they had to go to a different city because of X, Y, or Z.

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Depending on what might go wrong with these babies, I'm thinking 200,000 is very conservative. My son had an ambulance ride to the helipad, lifeflight to Topeka, 30 days in the NICU in Topeka, an ambulance ride back to my hometown, another 10 days in semi-NICU in my hometown, 6 cat scans for brain bleed (1st one required of all preemies), specialist for his eyes, heart monitor (had apnea, bradacardia(sp)) feeding tubes, and all kinds of extra tests. And my son was one of the lucky ones.

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Its not a common occurance anywhere for quads to be born. That is why it was on all the news shows this AM.

I live in Del Rio TN. The nearest hospital is in Newport TN, 17 miles from my house. I had catheract surgery recently and I had to go to Morristown TN, 35 miles away. But Del Rio TN is a settlement of maybe 2000 people, Newport has 8000 people, Calgary has over 1 million, anything available should be available in a city of that size.

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Nathan, the article said the service was available, but was at capacity. That happens in the US also. I experienced it myself. In fact NICU's are limited in the US.

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There is only one hospital with NICU's available in a city the size of Calgary??? That's incredible. Knoxville TN is about 60 miles from me and its population is around 300,000, a third of Calgary's and it has more hospitals than I can count. When I lived in Jacksonville FL, pop about 700,000 it had 8 major hospitals. I don't believe that this would happen in any major city in the United States

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No, what I meant was is it a common occurence for pregnant Canadian women in labor to have to go to the US to deliver.

Perhaps....again, I don't know. That's why I was wondering if this was a fluke or a common occurence.

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