Freeloading Americans
From: Linda
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:56:05 -0700
To: mmflint@aol.com
Subject: Canada's Health care system
Dear Michael:
Yes, I did see your eye opening film "Sicko." I have an eye opening story about Canada's health care system. An American couple brought their seriously ill daughter to Canada to seek free medical treatment because they had exhausted all of their medical insurance, they sold their home and all of their assets and had nothing left to financial give to the United States for profit hospitals. Consequently, the United States for profit hospitals turned them away. Compassionate Canada did not turn them away. The American couple and their daughter entered the Emergency Ward of one of Canada's hospitals and the said hospital immediately admitted their daughter.
The American couple's daughter remained in the hospital, free of charge, for one year because no hospital in the United States would accept her as a patient. While Canada's government was negotiating with various governments in the United States, the girl racked up a one million dollar hospital bill, which her parents did not have to pay for. The Canadian hospital refused to release the girl until the girl was accepted as a patient in a United States hospital because if the hospital would have released the girl she would have died. Finally, after one year of negotiating the United States Government assured Canada's government that the girl would be admitted to a United States hospital and would receive hospital care free of charge.
If anyone from anywhere in the world enters an Emergency Ward at a Canadian Hospital and declares they are in pain they will not be turned away because Canada's government has a policy to admit anyone, who is in pain, into a hospital regardless of whether they are Canadian or not and regardless of their financial status.
Sincerely,
Ms. Linda Meyer, A.A..B.A.P.B.D.
