What Happens When We’re Gone?
When I lived in upstate New York, there were always a lot of Canadians taking up spaces in the hospitals there. If they could afford it, they came to the US for treatment rather than throwing themselves on the mercy of Canadian health care. There is an enormous amount of pressure coming from the left for "Universal Health" coverage right now. It makes me wonder what the rest of the world will do when the US is no longer available to help? Here's a story from England that should raise you hackles.
A detective whose family has had to move from London to New York to obtain pioneering cancer treatment for her five-year-old son blamed NHS under-funding yesterday.
Yvonne Brown and her husband, Richard, both former Scotland Yard officers, have been living with their children in one room in Manhattan since Dec 1 while their youngest child, Jack, receives treatment at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center.
The hospital is the only place in the world that provides an antibody treatment for neuroblastoma, a cancer that attacks nerve cells.
In London, the Browns were told that the cancer was incurable if, as in Jack's case, there had been a relapse.
Mrs Brown, 39, said British experts had given Jack a 20 per cent chance of survival after he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2004.
They warned her that the American hospital would "simply take your money and experiment on your child".
For now these people have a chance to get the care they ot their loved ones need. For now.
But what happens when we are gone?
Medicine, World news | Gaius Sunday, 21 January , 2007
By Jungle Jim, Monday, 22 January , 2007 @ 8:04 am
Likewise when I lived in south Florida. The doctors’ offices and hospitals are filled with Canadians, especially from Quebec. Some of them told me they couldn’t get an appointment at all in Canada.