YOGAYUGA

Raising prices for non-residents isn’t really a solution: Collections are already a problem. Well said!
Be honest, HK ID card is not that attractive of many think. HK is an international and nice city to live in, but not completely, a perfect city you must have your baby born in here. I don’t quite understand why there are many Mainlander mothers want to have their babies born in HK in the recent few years. Some of them said medical care of HK is much better than hospitals in Mainland, so they can have better medical care in here. Some of their purposes aim to get the HK birth certificate for their babies, then their babies can live and study here in the future. Our government hospitals raised up the price against more and more pregnant Mainlander mothers to give birth in HK, but it doesn’t help. The cost is raised up to HKD40,000.00 same as private hospitals charge for non HK residents. Then the private hospitals raised up their cost again and try to avoid anymore Mainlander mothers giving birth in their hospitals, but it also doesn’t help. If those mothers can pay up to HKD40,000.00 for giving birth in HK; it means they can also pay the same or even higher price in the best hospitals in Mainland. The medical care won’t be too bad in those private hospitals of Mainland. Some are even like six stars hotels. This situation causes serious complains of both taxpayers and local HK pregnant mothers. Many Mainlander mothers do enter to HK while their babies are almost due, then they can guarantee the hospitals will accept their entry without refusal. Many of them didn’t even have full body check up before they went to the hospital that could be dangerous as the doctors don’t know what the health status of those mothers are on during their pregnancy. Meanwhile, for the local resident mothers will be lack of care in the hospitals as the nurses are not enough to take care of so many mothers under such situation. They will go for those who are in emergency. Moreover, if the nurses and doctors do treat Mainlander mothers differently compared with the local mothers, then they will be said against the law. The taxpayers are also not happy, as they are paying for the medical care not for themselves, but some people who don’t live in this city, and who never pay tax.

I heard that if any Chinese (or any pregnant women from foreign countries) pregnant women enter the US, they would have trouble to enter the country even with visa, and they could be exiled immediately. I am not sure about the truth but this is being said around for years. The US government is against those who aim to have their babies born in the US and trying to have the residency. This won’t be happened in HK, as it’s against the basic law of HK; the law sees it as some sorts of inhuman treatment. However, I think the Chinese government should do something for it either to improve their local medical care or educate the local people. A married couple in China is not allowed to have more than one child in a family. If they have the second one, then they will get fine and punishment. This is the law since 70s. During 80s, if pregnant women have been found pregnant the second time then they would be forced to do abortion. If those haven’t been found, then they would secretly travel to another county of Mainland giving birth and having the residency of that county. In this case, they won’t be found out they have two childs in the family. It’s part of the reasons why Mainlander mothers would travel to HK and giving birth. We may see that there is a leak in the law of Chinese government.
There are many nice cities in Mainland, perhaps it could be still lack of resources to certain extent in some places, but it’s not really that bad. Staying at home, is not that bad, isn’t it??