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To: bentway who wrote (204142)	9/23/2006 3:43:05 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

None of the Americans I know has ever been denied treatment.

To: bentway who wrote (204142)	9/23/2006 4:03:50 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Christine had 3 or 4 houses and a half million dollars in the bank. In Canada she was not allowed to get better treatment even if she paid it herself. Had she been a politician, or a sports figure, she would be alive today. She was only a citizen she had no right to treatment. Saying there is healthcare is one thing, But when you die because of the state of healthcare, that is another. Politicians in Canada regularly go to American Hospitals and they do it for a reason, the latest treatments, the best procedures and the finest drugs are available to them. We have people dying in canada because the government won't pay for the cure. We have people blinded by 3rd world medicine when better methods are used 20 miles away. One of my uncles is on dialysis, he spends six months in Florida on dialysis and 6 months here. he is always healthier when he comes up from florida than he is when he goes back. You would think that dialysis would be dialysis, but it isn't.

To: bentway who wrote (204142)	9/23/2006 9:32:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If a person is poor in America, they can get all the medical treatment they need with Medicaid. One trick many people don't know -- almost everybody with cancer and no health insurance will qualify for Medicaid. I learned this from trying to help a lady who was thinking about filing bankruptcy because she didn't have any insurance and her daughter had brain cancer, and she couldn't pay for the treatments. The place I learned it from was the hospital itself, when I called the billing department to get a breakdown on the costs due. They had all the forms for the mother to fill out. Another way to get treatment is to go to a hospital emergency room. A US statute, EMTALA, requires the hospital to treat patients in the emergency room, even if they don't have insurance.