I'm no great believer in socialised medicine, but we in this country need to take better care of our poor and elderly as well as disabled citizens.  I've got insurance through my job, but if I were on Medicaid in this state, I'd be in bad shape.  I've known several people who applied for SSDB after the waiting period, and had to go without meds for two years until Medicare kicked in.  Hard to believe, but sometimes SSDB disqualifies you for Medicaid because the state says it's too high an income.

        Kat




"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yes, canada is different. i have heard of people dying while on waiting
list. and some people want the u.s. to scoialize medicine. i think not.

-----Original Message-----
From: jd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Need to vent-- ITB, Pain, etc.


I don't know about that Ken. Alexs nuero-surgeon is
one of the top pediatric nuero-surgeons in the United
States and she has a wonderful bed side manner and is
open to all questions etc be it by email or phone,even
from strangers.Maybe it's because she is a woman???. I
also think it needs to be kept in mind that Jenn is in
Canada and the medical system over there is so much
differant than here in the US.Here if you have the
money or medical insurance there is very little
waiting for most procedures. My understanding is in
Canada there is a huge backlog for any procedure and
it doesn't matter if it's for life threatening
condition or not. It could be this doc is very
frusterated with the system because of how tied his
hands are. I believe Jenn said she had to pay for the
Bacoflen out of pocket because her moms  private
insurance wouldn't pay for it nor would the Canadian
socialized medicine system.I've followed Jenns story
for a while now and I hope she gets the pump as much
as anyone. I do believe she has also stated the system
has only enough money to do 10 pumps a year. To the
doc who I'm sure has seen many cases( and the Bpump is
used for  MS,spinal cord accidents, TBI etc not just
CP) Jenn may be one of his high functioning patients.
It doesn't excuse his behavior which was indeed more
than rude but it must be frusterating to have the
skills to be able to relieve so many peoples suffering
but not have the resources to do so, especially in a
well off country such as Canada is considered.Jenn,I
really hope this works out well and on the schedule
you want it to. Keep the faith ok?
Joanne
--- "Barber, Kenneth L."  wrote:
> the better the doc, the easiser to think he is god
> and the more likely he is
> to be put in his place, but, the less likewly that
> someone will do it. too
> bad. he desperatly needs it.
>
>

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