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What do you call a Lawyer at the bottom of the Ocean?
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65sporty
Old Man with a Hat
I am very sorry for what has happened to your wife, I can only hope and pray that everything works out for the both of you. It sounds like a long road ahead for you both. My wife is dealing with doctors also but I don't have the added Lawyer issue you have. I wish you both the best
Its been 11 years of hell for the both of us but it has become the new normal now. The world is not wheelchair friendly but we manage ok. My wife has an amazing attitude and doesn't dwell on her disability in fact she has become an advocate for others trying to navigate the bureaucracy of the health care system.
Sorry to hear it my friend, please give my regards to your wife. Insurance companies, lawyers and scum bag doctors who work for the previously mentioned bottom feeders should all have their own lives turned inside out like they do to others on a daily basis.
Every person I know who is truly hurt just wants to get back their life...
BTW I want in on the FL vacation, but not the boat... I will travel towards where ever you folks are, very happily... I would enjoy buying you a beer or several.
Every person I know who is truly hurt just wants to get back their life...
BTW I want in on the FL vacation, but not the boat... I will travel towards where ever you folks are, very happily... I would enjoy buying you a beer or several.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
I can attest to the issues with AHS. Trying to get a person who will, or is permitted to spew something other than the pre-approved drivel in their handbook, is a feat in itself, especially if you are dealing with two different health regions.
78Brougham
"Chump"
Didn't mean offend with the F-1 girls....Just a little distraction from our daily routine. I'll keep you and your wife in my thoughts and prayers for some kind relief to the mess you good folks are in. Good bless
Keep the F1 Girls coming man - guys gotta have some fun! Besides she says it ok to look at the menu just don't order anything haha
Thanks for the kind thoughts you guys are gonna make her cry lol.
LeBaron1973
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I too sympathise with your situation, but isn't there a current affairs tv show you could go on to explain all this?
Sometimes things that aren't possible suddenly become so when the media are involved. What about Ottawa? You got a new PM not long ago, surely the new government can help out and kick some butt in Calgary?
You could be forgiven for thinking the idea is to prolong things so the individual dies, thus nothing need be done, really shameful how it works, especially in a first-world country like Canada.
Sometimes things that aren't possible suddenly become so when the media are involved. What about Ottawa? You got a new PM not long ago, surely the new government can help out and kick some butt in Calgary?
You could be forgiven for thinking the idea is to prolong things so the individual dies, thus nothing need be done, really shameful how it works, especially in a first-world country like Canada.
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No offence is intended by my previous comment. I recall where a young American boy required surgery or treatment that Aetna (I think) refused to pay for.
After a hue and cry, the board met and agreed to pay, however whilst the spokeswoman was explaining this, a call was received that the boy had just died, just shameful.
All the best
After a hue and cry, the board met and agreed to pay, however whilst the spokeswoman was explaining this, a call was received that the boy had just died, just shameful.
All the best
Absolutely none taken. Believe me my wife's story would make a 2 hr special on 20/20 etc. in fact she is writing a book about her experiences called "The Tenth Patient" as the Dr's kept saying only one in ten patients react/exhibit/respond etc she was that one in ten that didn't fit their narrow diagnosis. Dr's today need to be able to quantify or qualify symptoms. If you do not fit their definition or have un-explained symtoms they tell you its all in your head. They treat broken bones flu etc in the hospitals. Complex cases are often told its in your head or you are a drug seeker both of which my wife has been accused of because the Dr did not have enough knowledge or experience past prescribing Mrs Jones Valium. Her story will be told but she is a private person and sensationalising it for profit goes against her ideals. She would rather it draw attention to the inadequacies of our health care system....then again I always wanted to meet Bobawa Walters...
My wife has the same issue... They can't diagnose her problems or they point her down the wrong path. They contradict each other and pass her off to specialists who look at her for 2 minutes and then dismiss her. A couple years ago, we went through a pancreatic cancer scare that ended with the nurse saying "It's negative....Did anyone call you last week to tell you that?". Yea... a weeks worth of insane worrying and nobody carrying enough to make a simple phone call. They had time to send the bill though...
The health care system sucks... and I find it more than mildly amusing that the politicians here point to the Canadian system as how it "should" work and yet here you are, looking to bring your wife to the USA for treatment.
72Fury
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I thought about the only way to get treated or see a doctor in Canada was to pay out of your own pocket, rather than use the system if you didn't want to wait a long period of time?
That's what you end up with when you have socialized medicine.
I really hope that your wife and yourself get the help and resources that you need, and deserve. As bad as insurance companies are, I would much rather deal with them than the government. The government has NO incentive to do anything.
A 2 tier system is technically illegal in Canada. Universal health care was enacted to provide the same care to everyone regardless of ability to pay. Nice Utopian ideal but in reality what it does is flood the system with people seeking remedies to the common cold while really sick people wait in line for MRI's etc and die waiting. All the good Doctors go to the USA where they get paid. A Doctor practicing in Calgary is paid the same as a Doctor practicing in Alberta's version of Fumbuck County so you can imagine how many go to Fumbuck. If you could pay to get that MRI or Cancer treatment faster believe me many would which would then relieve stress on the public system but here's the problem....any Doctor worth his salt would naturally go into the Private system and get paid for his skills leaving the dregs for the Public system. The compromise is to make the Doctors perform so many hours of Public to offset their Private practice. The govmint can not get their heads around that.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Sigh......... The whole rotting gawdamn awful flucking stinking corrupt healthcare system has brought me to edge more than once.. 
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fury fan
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Sigh......... The whole rotting gawdamn awful flucking stinking corrupt healthcare system has brought me to edge more than once..
I don't mean to break any rules about politics, etc, but this was topical. They say you can boil a frog if you turn the heat up slowly, and it'll stay content the whole time. (I see bubbles)
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
" It was Adolf Hitler, who actually completed the process and imposed socialized healthcare on the entire German population, as a part of nazification of the healthcare industry."
fury fan
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Some of Hitler's gameplans are currently in the public discourse, being proposed/promoted by lemmings who don't know where those ideas had been used before. Then those same lemmings accuse the other camp of being brownshirts. Crazy. Those who do not know history are bound to repeat it...
I'll bow out of this sidetrack now, back to Dobalovr!
I'll bow out of this sidetrack now, back to Dobalovr!
They aren't all lemmings, there are plenty that know exactly what they are doing.
