Did the surgeon submit the bill to your MEDICAL insurance or dental? Do you have a copy of the EOB and why it was denied? I wouldn't be writing any checks until I'd investigated why this expence wasn't covered.

Take care,
Eileen

Gary: Did you know there are more PEOPLE in California than there are in Canada?? Seems to me that it would make sense then to have more Cancer Centers in California than Canada. I won't debate the merits of either system - I truly believe they each have their pros and cons, but please use facts not distortions like the one above. Donna

I was posting the following reply to Gary's reply to my post when magically his reply disappeared (anyone confused yet??). I have decided to post my reply anyway - just to clarify what I said the other day about "distortions"

The distortion I referred to is the comment about "more cancer centers in California vs all of Canada" which certainly carried a tone/implication that due to that simple fact - Canada was some how deficient. My point is that the entire country of Canada has 33 million people vs the 36 million who reside in Californa (based on your 2006 census). Therefore on a per capita basis one would EXPECT more Cancer centers in California.

I apologize if anyone took this personally - as I said I believe both systems have their pros and cons.

Donna

Donna,
My earlier comments were more about our political system in the US, which is basically corrupt and driven by special interests. I researched your concerns and discovered some very interesting facts about the hospital morbidity data for Canadian hospitals and it is significantly lower than the US. Life expectancy is higher as well - quite a bit higher in fact.

But would I trust the government to institute a Canadian style health system here? Not on your life - they have already pillaged the social security fund and if they ran into a pot of gold like the health care system they would pillage it too. Frankly, in some respects I think we would be better off with a benevolent monarchy instead of a 2 party system that screams "CHANGE" every 4 years and ALWAYS for the worse.