Just saw an AFP ad with Shona Holmes...

[TheMightyFavog]

Remember her? The Canadian lady who had her brain tumor operated on in the states because Canada would not cover her surgery?

Only her condition was not life threatening, it was not a tumor it was a benign cyst. Methinks most insurance providers here in the states would have made the same call as the Canadians did.

http://letfreedomrain.blogspot.com/2012/09/shona-holmes-is-at-it-again-lying.html

[Mopar151]

1. Running in NH this week n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Saw it here in WI.

IIRC, I seem to remember reading somewhere that she received a partial reimbursement for the surgery from her universal heath care...

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Morning kick

:kick:

[Lucy Goosey]

4. Oh, I remember her

She was absolutely eviscerated in the Canadian press when she first showed up on the scene - apparently we don't like it up here if you go shit all over our single payer system on behalf of American neocons.

[Proud2baCanuck]

5. 3 years later she is back

3 years later and they haven't found a better detractor of the Canadian Healthcare system than her. Me thinks that says the other 99.99% are happier with it than with private insurance.

[47of74]

6. If teabilly fucksticks will lie about Shona Holmes

They'll lie about anything.

[riverbendviewgal]

7. I am quite upset with this.

I too have a cyst in my brain...I have had two mri's one regular and one enhanced, 6 months apart.

Cysts are common in the brain.
My neurosurgeon said it nothing to worry about..

On the other hand my son in 1998 had seizures at work, was rushed to the hospital on a Friday and was having brain surgery on Monday.. He was diagnosed with GBM...Glio Blastma Muliforme .. same tumor as Ted Kennedy.

He had two surgeries, chem and radiation and then a week of palliative care. He died in October 1999..

Canada has great health care. We did not have health care bills for our son. My husband was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma 2 months after our son was diagnosed.

He had surgery, blood transfusions, radiation, chemo , stem cell transplant, his own stem cells harvested. and finally palliative care in the hospital for 3 months. Zero cost.

I would never want to be treated in the USA...NEVER.