Comments on: Foreigners and US medical care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78131 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78131 It seems a personal choice to bring an entire family to the US while a family member is treated. While it may be comforting to have all of the family together, it is not unusual to have long separations when a family member is tasked to work overseas. Ask any deployed service member. It may be less desirable, but what would prevent the husband from remaining back at home to work?<br/><br/>This is a "problem" that could only exist in a relative sense in the midst of plenty: money enough from charity sources to send a patient around the world for an experimental surgery, charitable concessions made by the hospitals offering these treatments. It sounds as if these families expected to have someone else provide them living expenses without having to devise a long-term strategy for self-support. It seems a personal choice to bring an entire family to the US while a family member is treated. While it may be comforting to have all of the family together, it is not unusual to have long separations when a family member is tasked to work overseas. Ask any deployed service member. It may be less desirable, but what would prevent the husband from remaining back at home to work?

This is a “problem” that could only exist in a relative sense in the midst of plenty: money enough from charity sources to send a patient around the world for an experimental surgery, charitable concessions made by the hospitals offering these treatments. It sounds as if these families expected to have someone else provide them living expenses without having to devise a long-term strategy for self-support.

]]> By: KoKohttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78110 KoKo Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78110 Does Amtrak go to Canada? Does Amtrak go to Canada?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78090 Anonymous Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78090 Well, they could always go to Cuba to get top notch care. Well, they could always go to Cuba to get top notch care.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78083 Anonymous Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/foreigners-and-us-medical-care.html#comment-78083 Kevin, have you noticed this?<br/><br/>http://tinyurl.com/26ffdv Kevin, have you noticed this?

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