what is the best hospital for delivering a baby in GTA Ontario ?
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Canadian hospitals are not hit or miss. They are uniformly good. The problem is the cost. A normal birth is 10k, but with complications, you can hit half a million pretty quick. There are midwives but they are not equipped for an emergency.
You can’t just pick a hospital. You have a doctor who is affiliated with a hospital. If you see that doctor you are expected to go to that hospital unless there is some sort of emergency and an ambulance takes you to another hospital or you go into labour and you are nowhere near the hospital and your contractions are so close you will not make it to the hospital you are supposed to go to.
Birth tourism is becoming a sore point in Canada. The system is designed to accommodate Canadians and not anyone else. The problem is people will show up and either think things are free or a nominal cost. They then hear 10k for a birth and say OK. Only to have complications and have to use NN ICU,s and ring up bills like $500,000.00. Then, of course, we (the Canadian Tax Payor) gets stuck with the bill. In BC the hospitals can't keep up and Canadians (the ones the system is built for receive shoddy service). In a look at the future, Sunnybrook (the biggest hospital in Toronto) will no longer accept any foreign birth's. We can't serve the whole world so expect further restrictions.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/birth-tourism-strain-1.5413296
http://health.sunnybrook.ca/navigator/birth-tourism-the-pregnant-patients-most-doctors-cannot-accept/
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Not sure the OP was talking about birth tourism but anyway let’s hope Canada takes a hint from the US who as of 1/24 banned birth tourism other than exceptional circumstances . Unfortunately the downside of this may be more mothers to be heading for Canada so hopefully the government sees this and acts.
Thank you for answer I am a PR I am not a birth tourism and I pay tax just like everybody else.