…as per the first comment in this Hot Air post about Kent Pankow. But that’s absurd: we’ve been told by all sorts of people that such things could never, ever, ever happen under a government-run universal health care regime.
Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.
Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.
Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place.
And why would it never happen? Because the Master loves us and would never hurt us… look! A squirrel!
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.
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Anthropogenic global warming – real.
Death panels – not real.
Pour me some more kool-aid, please.
There’s-no-such-thing-as-death-panels.
There’s-no-such-thing-as-death-panels.
There’s-no-such-thing-as-death-panels.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-socialized-health-care-works-in-canada
The Alberta Cancer Board: A Canadian Euphemism for ‘Death Panel’…
Got cancer in Canada? No worries – you’re covered! And if you’re lucky, you’ll be deemed ‘surgery worthy’: Kent Pankow lives in Edmonton, in a province and a country that is trying to either kill him or bankrupt him. No……