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Originally posted by Rose
Yes Education is better here in Canada, but health care? No fucking way, people are dying on waiting lists, or go to emergency room, 8 hours waiting time. It's not that long ago when little child here died while parents waited with him in emergency room.
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From 12-7-02
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Cheyenne woman who was denied coverage for a potentially lifesaving bone marrow transplant has died of leukemia.
Cathi Blevins, 30, died Wednesday at United Medical Center-West, only one year after she was first diagnosed.
Blevins and her family spent the past couple months trying to find
money to pay for a bone marrow transplant.
She had few options because Wyoming Medicaid does not cover
transplants for people over age 21
"She went from having a 50-50 chance at living to no chance at all," said Trish Lovett, Blevins' sister.
Blevins, who is survived by an 11-year-old daughter, was beginning her second year at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs whenshe became ill.
She eventually moved to Cheyenne so Lovett could help care for her.
Blevins went into remission in October and doctors at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center told her it was an optimal time for her to receive a bone marrow transplant.
When Blevins' cancer returned about three weeks ago, she told Lovett she did not feel strong enough to go through chemotherapy and on Nov. 22 she checked into the hospital.
Her family spent Thanksgiving with her in the hospital, bringing food, but Blevins was too sick to eat any of it.
"I can't imagine other people having to deal with this," Lovett said. "We've got to make the government see what they're putting people through. I probably wouldn't have lost my sister if they'd given her a chance