In a previous article, Frank said:
I am fully aware that "free" health care promotes abuse. People should have
a stake in their own treatment's cost when they are able to pay. But the
notion that just about everyone in the US is one major illness away from
financial ruin is what's wrong here.

A good friend of mine has cancer. She's been living and working in the US
for several years, and bought a house here. She's unable to work because
of the cancer, and her COBRA is just about to run out. The hospital she
is currently confined to plans to chuck her out on the street because they
don't take Medicare patients. So add to the stress of being bedridden
with probably terminal cancer, she has to arrange to sell her house and
move back to Canada because it's the only way to get decent cancer
treatment.

The US system ****ing sucks.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"I didn't know it was impossible when I did it."