[pianotech] Medical costs (OT!) was: billing dilemma with pitch raises

[Terry Beckingham]

Susan,  Jer etal,

We hear lots of complaints about our Canadian medical system from some 
people south of the border and I think most of it is unjustified.
  About 4 years ago I had a stroke just before Christmas. A CT scan 
confirmed it. There was no cost to me. Two weeks later, after suffering 
with abdominal pain for days, I went to the  ER, was given a CT scan which 
showed that I had a perforated bowel which had caused severe infection in 
the abdomen.  I was taken to the airport by ambulance along with my wife as 
escort, where we were whisked off to Winnipeg by air ambulance and then by 
ambulance to hospital in Winnipeg where I remained for 8 days on IV 
antibiotics. When I was released, my wife and I were provided with airline 
tickets to take us back home. Six weeks later I returned to Winnipeg and 
had part of my bowel removed. I spent another 8 days in hospital while 
recovering. Then I was sent home. That trip was also paid for. All of this 
was at no cost to me and I don't have any medical insurance. I think our 
Canadian medicare is pretty darn wonderful.

Susan, maybe you should have stayed in London. It's a nice city with great 
hospitals and free medicare. Ask Ted Sambel. He retired there. Taxes aren't 
really high in Canada. My tax rate is only about  23%. :)

I hope you are all healed up now. All the best.

Terry Beckingham RPT

0:05 PM 31/10/2010 -0700, you wrote:

>I see, you were spoiled up there.  We all should be (in my view).
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>David Love
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>www.davidlovepianos.com
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>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
>Behalf Of Susan Kline
>Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:18 PM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Medical costs (OT!) was: billing dilemma with 
>pitch raises
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>On 10/31/2010 8:59 PM, David Love wrote:
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>All I can say is good health and good luck but I m keeping my health 
>insurance.
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>And good health and good luck to you, as well.
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>I got along very well with the Canadian system when I lived there. It's 
>not that I'm averse to paying a reasonable amount to be covered.
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>Susan