Posted on Aug 15, 2019
Canadian Health Care Refused to Pay for Disabled Father's Care, but Happily Paid for His Assisted...
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You want the "benefits" of a Canadian health care system? Move, but don't expect me to move with you
Canadian Health Care Refused to Pay for Disabled Father's Care, but Happily Paid for His Assisted...
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Jack, I'm not trying to dispute you, I just want to know if this is normal standing operating procedure in my province. They do offer Blue Cross here in Canada and you can pay for additional insurance. Here in Canada, they have parsley hogtied the doctors, the Pharmaceuticals and the attorneys so they don't destroy the medical system like they do in the USA by making Healthcare unaffordable. I know that my wife's aneurysm would have cost me at least $30,000 and co-pay in the United States and there's no guarantee she would have survived.
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CPT Jack Durish
I have corresponded with friends in England and Canada and heard stories similar to the one in this article. I have heard from others who are quite happy with NHS, but they're all healthy. Rarely, but occasionally, I have heard ones like yours that sound "successful". Of course, the $30,000 copay you mention is under the auspices of the (Un)Affordable Healthdcare Act.
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CPT Jack Durish and that is just a guess, Jack. Just having the equivalent of USC Medical Center surgeons work on my wife for 3 hours. They took a piece of her skull out and put a mini roach clip type device on her breach. They then put the piece of skull back in place and they put a small hole at the top of her skull so they could slowly add the brain fluid back in over the course of two weeks. She spent three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit. She was given experimental medicines. They put her in a morphine induced coma for a day or two because of brain swelling. I have no idea how much this would have cost so it's just a total guesstimate of $30,000 copay.
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My wife had an aneurysm at age 39. They took excellent care of her and gave her surgery within 12 hours of the aneurysm and she spent three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit. They use experimental medicines that would not have been allowed with insurance companies. Aside from my regular taxes, all I pay for was the ambulance. Thank you for posting this story because I just post it on Facebook to ask my Canadian family is this how it is in the province of Alberta? Thank you for this post because this is not a way to live if you are dying.
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Give the government control of the healthcare system, you give them the power to determine who gets care and when. England practically sentenced a child to death recently utilizing the same government power.
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