For all of those who think socialized medicine is a good thing, and think the Canadian Healthcare system is great, here is some news to consider:

HELENA, Mont. — A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, hospital officials said Thursday.

Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare Hospital in Great Falls, Montana, said Amy Astin, the hospital's director of community and government relations.

The Jepps drove 325 miles (523 kilometers) to Great Falls for the births because hospitals in Calgary were at capacity, Key said.

Imagine, the hospitals in Calgary, a major city, couldn't handle the case. They could probably have scheduled the babies' delivery in a few weeks. The politicians here like to talk about the lack of health insurance for a lot of Americans. But, there is not a lack of access to healthcare. In fact, people from Mexico come to Texas for healthcare. I have seen that myself, when my granddaughter was sick and had to be taken to the hospital at night. I asked about all of the people in the waiting room who were speaking Spanish, and had to have interpreters because they couldn't speak English. It turned out that many of the people were Mexicans who had chronic ailments and came to Texas to get care that was unavailable in Mexico. In fact, I have read about Mexican Officials complaining because the US hospitals don't have enogh Spanish speakers on staff.

I suspect the Canadian healthcare system would collapse if they were not close enough to the US system to handle overflow and difficult cases. I have read that a lot of Canadians have US health insurance.

Of course, another factor in this; the babies are now US citizens as well as being Canadians.