A woman with incurable cancer is looking for that right Canadian man:
Jeanne Sather, 52, posted a personal ad last week in her blog, The Assertive Cancer Patient, looking for a marriage-minded Canadian gent.“If I moved [240 kilometres] north I wouldn’t have to worry about medical care,” said Sather, who has been battling breast cancer for nine years.
She pays $20,000 annually in medical costs, including insurance premiums. The treatment for her cancer, which has spread to her bones, costs $300,000 a year.
In her ad, she describes Mr. Right as 45 to 57 years old. “Cancer patient or survivor. Open-minded. Bit of a risk-taker. Warm hearted but not clinging. Bald OK.”
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There are sham marriages for all sorts of economic reasons. Citizenship. Politicians with homosexual predilections who need political cover. Why not a sham marriage for health insurance?
You don’t need to go to Canada for that, though. It appears she writes from the Seattle area. There are Boeing workers with traditional insurance. There are military bases all over the area. Ft. Lewis, McCord, Bremerton, Everett, Whidbey, Bangor. Marry a career serviceman and get dependent coverage. Blue-collar union insurance at the Port of Seattle and Tacoma.
One could go on.
But then again, this is not really about access to healthcare, is it?
Canada’s health care isn’t free. WE ALL have to pay for it., btu she wouldn’t know anything about that b/c she’s never paid taxes to our gov’t but yet wants to reap the benefits of our system. this lady makes me sick. she’s a parasite to our system, increasing our taxes by the year.
Anon 9:11, I appreciate your feeling. Let me tap your brain on the concept, though. I assume you are Canadian.
If healthcare is the issue, why would she even have to marry a Canadian, why not just move to Canada?
I don’t know the immigration rules there. It is my understanding that Canadian immigration, like Australian immigration, is more skills-based than the USA. You have a needed skill, you get in. Last time I read about it, it seemed like we should be doing the same in the USA.
Assuming your country had a dire need for free-lance writers for yuppie magazines, and she were admitted, could she not get health coverage on short notice?
Of course the other issue is she may not even get the chemo/rad tx (thanks to rationing) that she recieves in this country.
See the above posts from Kevin regarding patients coming from Canada to get treatments denied them due to rationing and government policy.
But as said, her issue is not access to healthcare, she’s trying to make an idiotic political point. Such is the Seattle chattering class.
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