<p>blue bayou, this hospital in Montana was the closest hospital, in either country, which had four neonatal ICU beds available. At the Calgary hospital, three other preemies had been born the previous night, all unexpected. The issue here was the need for FOUR neonatal ICU beds, not one, but four! I’m sure you can understand that transport to the closest hospital was the ideal solution, and it all worked out. The increase in number of preemie births is affecting all neonatal units. I don’t see this as anything at all close to “rationing”. How do you see that? Quadruplet births are rare, and it’s likely to present a problem in ANY hospital. I guess my question to you would be, what do you think would have happened if an uninsured mom-to-be in the U.S. was facing the same issue? Would someone have paid to have her, her husband, and two medical personnel flown to a hospital with the care she required?</p>