Headline in the New Zealand Herald:
Rare health condition: Government to pay for Melody Klein Ovink’s life-saving US surgery
This story strikes home for me because this woman is going through the same thing my Uncle Charles went through 70 years ago. Like this girl, my uncle had a condition New Zealand’s universal healthcare system was simply unable to treat. Fortunately for her, she won’t have to travel by boat to the United States to get the help she needs the way my grandmother and he did, leaving behind my mother in a convent to be cared for by nuns for the better part of a year.
Note what this woman first heard from the Kiwi health system:
Doctors told her no one in New Zealand could operate on it so she was going to have to live with it and hope it didn’t bleed again because it would likely kill her.
Thank goodness the US healthcare system, with its own faults, can once again come to the aid of a New Zealander in need, the way it has for decades for people from around the world served by systems that simply can’t cope with cases like this.
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