My DIL is American. Her landed immigrant papers got held up in an Immigration strike, so she couldn't get BC health care. So my son got a job in England, and she got coverage the minute she landed in England. She had the baby there, and she said the support during and after delivery was fantastic. She said every aspect of the NHS was so much better than the fancy HMO they had been in in the US. They had no problems the year they were there.
My son said health care was better than in Canada, too! We have "socialized" medicine in Canada, and my son prefers it to what was happening in the US. But things were better in England.
As far as this baby, I do not understand how the courts could stop the parents from going elsewhere to get care. In Canada, if a treatment is not available in Canada, they pay for whatever is necessary in the US. Or, you can go and pay for it yourself, if you have money.
There are no restrictions on health care, like you have to stick to doctors and services within your HMO. I can go to any doctor, in any province. I can get tests done wherever I want. My DIL was constantly having issues with being told a lab or doctor was in her HMO, then being sent a bill, because it wasn't. Then spending months proving to her insurance they had approved it.
Meanwhile, everyone in Canada and the UK are covered totally, and millions can't afford health care in the US! Terrible system - all about making a profit, not caring for the health needs of people. This whole blanket condemnation of so-called " socialized" medicine, which in fact is properly called " universal" health care is a lie that probably comes out of those who profit from sick people! And I can assure you, doctors, nurses and others make good money in Canada, but most are not in it for the money!
I can tell you, I would rather be in Canada or England any day, than the overpriced American health care system I unfortunately had to deal with once when I got food poisoning on a trip down there! Lucky I had out of country insurance, is all I can say!