Comments on: Canada’s NICU shortage http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85515 Anonymous Fri, 09 May 2008 17:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85515 The reason I ask.....you read about "anchor babies" coming into the country illegally to deliver here, expecting the baby to "anchor" the family in the USA. To the extent that this happens, the fact remains the women sort of sneaked in as it were. <br/><br/>These Canadian women have arranged all this in advance. All fine and good, I suppose. But it sure looks to me like a big loophole in immigration rules.<br/><br/>Set up an obstetric specialty hospital, all cash. People who want to enter the USA around the immigration laws, and have the means to pay. Arrange to have the baby in the USA. Claim shortages of facilities in home country.<br/><br/>Baby delivered in the USA, family is anchored. Why bother with immigration?<br/><br/>Am I missing some detail? The reason I ask…..you read about “anchor babies” coming into the country illegally to deliver here, expecting the baby to “anchor” the family in the USA. To the extent that this happens, the fact remains the women sort of sneaked in as it were.

These Canadian women have arranged all this in advance. All fine and good, I suppose. But it sure looks to me like a big loophole in immigration rules.

Set up an obstetric specialty hospital, all cash. People who want to enter the USA around the immigration laws, and have the means to pay. Arrange to have the baby in the USA. Claim shortages of facilities in home country.

Baby delivered in the USA, family is anchored. Why bother with immigration?

Am I missing some detail?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85487 Anonymous Thu, 08 May 2008 00:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85487 That is what is nice about decentralization-we don't need a national birthing plan. The need for such "national plans" is a result of socialism. As our socio-economic systems are complex beyond our capacity to manage them, and we never have and never will be able to predict the future--although we always overestimate our ability to do both--such plans always fail. <br/><br/>What we have are local hospitals one by one developing individual business plans to provide services and remain afloat. Better meet needs. That is what is nice about decentralization-we don’t need a national birthing plan. The need for such “national plans” is a result of socialism. As our socio-economic systems are complex beyond our capacity to manage them, and we never have and never will be able to predict the future–although we always overestimate our ability to do both–such plans always fail.

What we have are local hospitals one by one developing individual business plans to provide services and remain afloat. Better meet needs.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85485 Anonymous Wed, 07 May 2008 23:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85485 It is eligible for citizenship under current law. It is eligible for citizenship under current law.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85477 Anonymous Wed, 07 May 2008 20:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/canadas-nicu-shortage.html#comment-85477 Does anyone know.......does that baby become an American citizen by virtue of birth in the USA? Does anyone know…….does that baby become an American citizen by virtue of birth in the USA?

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