Why Not have a baby in Canada

[mrcvs1]

Next time my wife is Pregnant I don't think we will be visiting Canada during her 7th,8th or 9th Month!

Australian couple has $1 million hospital bill after baby born in B.C. - Yahoo! News

[oompaloompa]

we get health tourists all the time in UK,.
They fly here to have their babies, operations, do not pay a penny.
they should pay because they did not pay taxes here...

but $1 million? how come it is so much? that is way over.

Everyone knows birth is not covered by insurance as it is pre-existing and planned not a sickness..I mean other complications or if the child is sick, might be covered but not the basic birth itself.

[GreenBean]

What?
They paid a $1,000,000 so the sprog would not be born in Canada.

Got off cheaply

[MM78]

Actually birth is covered by major insurance policies in the USA, at least that I know of.

[GreenBean]

Another example of the buyer not reading the fine print.

[rsot]

A sucker born every day and two to take him.

[LoopHole]

I have babies all over the world.... haven't paid anything. Maybe im just lucky

[imjustme]

Something tells me we're not getting the whole story through that article. $1,000,000 for a 3 months hospital stay equals about $11,000 in hospital costs - per day.

Now what could that be for? Surely the room and food can't cost $11,000 per day, unless she shared a suite with Paris Hilton for 3 months.

[GreenBean]

Baby got defined as micro-premature.

That's usually one to one nursing 24/7.
Pain relief woud run 24/7.

Child may have had surgeries

That would become costly. If they were repatriated to Australia on a medical flight( as opposed to a commerical flight) there's big cost too.

[baloch]

Just one of the things We Canadians are not proud off. It is just like in Irobots with Will Smith. Programming takes over Logic.

For The couple why go on a vacation when you are just weeks from the due date.

For The Hospital Give the couple a break and just charge then a regular fee rather then this astronomical abominate amount.

[GreenBean]

Her Australian doctor passed her fit to travel.

She appears to have left Australia sometime before the 26th week of pregnancy.
Was within a reasonable time frame
Many doctors advise not travelling after that time.
Airlines allow travel for pregnant women up to the 35th week.

Quite a lot of mothers to be hide their pregnancy to allow the child to be born in certain countries. Birth gives the baby citizenship
( useless info)

[rsot]

Tale of two countries.