In some BC hospitals, birth tourists now represent 25 per cent of all maternity ward patients
In a two-tier system like Australia, the U.K. or the U.S., an influx of non-residents seeking health-care beds could safely exist on the sidelines without affecting overall health-care access: The system could simply grow organically to accommodate the increased demand.
She added that birth tourism is a “social structure issue.” Ultimately, wealthy people from abroad are able to supplant scarce Canadian health-care resources, with negative results for “disadvantaged” Canadians.Article contentexamined 102 cases of birth tourists who had their babies in Calgary between July 2019 and November 2020. A plurality were Nigerian and all told, the 102 paid $694,000 to Alberta Health Services in hospital fees.
Provincial health-care systems could dramatically raise fees on “other country” birth services in order to discourage patients not insured under the Canadian system.
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