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Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Az.
Recently, I’ve been listening to both sides of the issue about Universal Health Care. I read today that the experiment started in Massachusetts is still falling short of meeting expectations. Now, Shona Holmes, an Ontario middle-aged mother of two, has weighed in on the Canadian Health Care system. She seemed to be having a progressive loss of vision, so her primary doctor sent her to specialists. However, there was a long waiting list to see a neurologist or endocrinologist, according to Big Gov Health, about 4-6 months.

Perhaps it was her 5th sense, she decided to fly to the Mayo clinic in Arizona and she was able to obtain all the tests she needed and returned home with a complete diagnosis. Her reasoning was, that if she had a complete diagnosis, the doctors would move ahead with the next step: treatment. She was wrong: they turned her down.

She and her husband then returned to the Mayo Clinic, where the medical staff told her she needed the operation immediately “or die;” she had a brain tumor of the pituitary gland, and a rare condition called Cushing’s syndrome. She was scheduled ASAP and then returned home, of course, with major bills to pay. Canada refused to pay the bills and she is now suing in the Canadian Supreme Court “to repeal a ban that prevents its citizens from purchasing private health insurance.”

According to Shona: “What they don’t tell you is that both those countries (Canada & Great Britain) routinely block or delay access to needed treatments and often treat elderly patients with cavalier contempt.”

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