U.S. Customs delays ambulance at border — CanWest News Service

U.S. Customs delayed an ambulance that was transporting a man from Canada to a Detroit hospital. Apparently, the man had been “brought back to life” with defibrillators twice.

“If I’m that person in the booth, and there is an ambulance coming with a critically injured person, I’m not stopping the damn thing,” said Kat Lauzon, Laporte’s girlfriend. “I’m irate. I can’t figure it out. He could have died, and I would have blamed that person for murder.”

Be that as it may, but perhaps the Customs agents were buying into the political arguments on the left telling us how great the Canadian health care system is. Think about it: we’re constantly told by the left that the Canadian health care system is superior to ours in the United States.

If these agents had heard that — and it would be unbelievable if they hadn’t since all of us are inundated by it — then they probably thought that it was a big scam. Perhaps the agents just couldn’t believe it. Perhaps they thought the ambulance was being used to traffic something across the border because why would an ambulance be rushing a Canadian, who apparently, we are told, has a far superior health care system available to him, across the border the United States for health care?

“We have a system set up. We are to be pre-cleared and no problems,” Amlin said.

I’m being a little bit facetious here, and obviously if there is a system in place to transport Canadians across the border to give them access to much-needed health care, not available in their own country, then the ambulance should have been waived through. On the other hand, I’m not quoting the article for that purpose; I’m quoting the article to ask the real question: why does he need to come to the U.S. if the health care in Canada is so vastly superior? And for that matter, if the health care system is so vastly superior, why is it necessary to have a system “set up” to transport people across?

The article says that the Windsor hospital was “ill-equipped to perform live-saving surgery.” The city has a population of 216,473, and if you include the surrounding area (including the towns Amherstburg, LaSalle, Lakeshore and Tecumseh) the population is 323,342. I shudder to think what is available for smaller places, because no hospital should be “ill-equipped to perform live-saving surgery” if it services that many people.