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A rare set of identical quadruplets, born this week to a Calgary woman at a Montana hospital, are in good health and two of them were strong enough to be transported back here Thursday.

The naturally conceived baby girls -- Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia -- were delivered by caesarean section Sunday in Great Falls, their weights ranging between two pounds, six ounces and two pounds, 15 ounces.

Their mother, Calgarian Karen Jepp, was transferred to Benefis Hospital in Montana last week when she began showing signs of going into labour, and no Canadian hospital had enough neonatal intensive-care beds for all four babies.

Stop. Stop stop stop stop stop. No Canadian hospital? Not one?

That's a problem, folks. A big problem. Anyone who thinks that handing healthcare over to the government is going to help anyone other than politicians needs to be beated until they get some sense into their thick skulls. But don't just take my word for it. Go read Kate's piece, it's well worth the time spend reading it. There are horror stories about the British NHS that would curl your toes in disgust. Allowing the government to control the healthcare system in America would result in people dying left and right. It wouldn't happen immidiately, but it would happen eventually. All you need to do is look around at the rest of the world. It's not like government healthcare is a brand-new idea, it's being instituted in quite a few countries. And people, when possible, are hightailing it to the good old US of A for healthcare.

Think about it - no Canadian hospital had four neonatal beds. Yet a hospital in a small town of less than 60,000 people was able to provide the medical care this woman and her children needed.

If that doesn't paint a picture of what's wrong with socialist healthcare schemes, I don't know what will.