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Health Care system of Canada and USA
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The true story about Shirley Healey
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VERNON - Shirley Healey has a $41,000 US bill from a hospital stay in Bellingham, but after having her surgery cancelled twice in Kelowna -- with no guarantee it wouldn't happen again -- she has no regrets about going to the U.S., because her health has been restored.
Now she wants the B.C. health care system to help defray her costs.
on Sept. 25 and then again on Oct. 6, the operation was cancelled at the last minute in Kelowna, due to emergency cases which took precedence over Healey's. ...
On Oct. 6, after he had run out of his weekly allotment of operating room time, Ellett found out that the hospital in Kamloops could offer the surgery, but the frustrated Healey decided to go to the U.S. instead, because she couldn't face the prospect that an emergency case might cancel her operation a third time. She made a beeline to Timely Medical Alternatives, a Vancouver company that connects Canadian patients to American hospitals.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=272935e1-04fa-4bd8-ac41-8d6183d77c0b&p=1
I guess that never happens in the U.S. Of course, I'm sure that the private facility she went to in the U.S. doesn't handle emergency cases at all.
