this is sad

That wouldn't work anyway. Canadian immigration requires you to go through a medical exam before they'll give you residence status (even if you are married to a Canadian). Terminal cancer would definitely rule someone out.... Really sad, I agree...

Were it not for the unhealthy diets of millions of Americans, the over-burdening of the current health care system with illegals and welfare recipients, and the abuse of pharmaceuticals (certainly this list can be expanded), we would all be healthier, and the services would be affordable. These should valid observations, for any reasonable person.

But no, the government will save us....

It could be affordable now Choggie, if it wasn't for sheer unchecked greed. Our local hospital here got rated top 100 in America a few years back and now they have millions more than they know what to do with. We keep getting new annexes popping up all over the place and the downtown main looks like a Vegas hotel. Then they used all that visible growth to justify upping the costs to us so they can get even more rich...

efranc65 is right, Canada does not grant auto-citizenship on the basis of marriage.

I know a guy from Holand who was married to a Canadian, living in Montreal, and having to spend years going to court, filling out paper, asking for working permits, and they have a kid.

I had another friend who married a woman in Poland, when they moved back to Canada they could only get her a visa for three months, because he didn't have enough cash in the bank to convince the government that he could support her for any longer without her working illegally. I can get six months, just by walking up with a passport from the states.

Being married may help the process, but it's a lot of court time, and if the government magistrate finds any reference to her public request, they would throw her application out, even if having terminal cancer was not an issue.

She will be dead long before Canada will agree to give her a medical card.

I think the American health care system is the most retarded system in the world.
Health care is not a business, it is a service. If you run it like a business the patients health ceases to be important and profit becomes the sole objective.

The American Health Care system is bloated. Why? Because it has to take care of an overweight and unhealthy populace. It services a society that considers dying to be unnatural and unacceptable. It strives to meet the expectation of immediate service for non-emergent problems. It labors under threat of tort law and the resultant substitution of unnecessary tests for sound medical judgment. It reels from a pharmaceutical burden, in which a drug company must invest almost $1 billion to get a drug from test tube to the U.S. market. It's heavily encumbered with the profit motives of the health-care administrators, whose services evolved from a belief that employers must provide health-care benefits.

Nutrition is more essential to an individual's health than medicine. Those who can pay for food are required to do so. The food market is a business, not a service. Until you have a national health-care system entirely staffed by volunteers, medicine will continue to be a business as well, and be thankful it is.

The US health-care system has unsurpassed quality and unsustainable quantity. It has a cumbersome, expensive, and arbitrary interface. Americans want, and deserve, health-care choices. Personal health-care savings accounts, deregulated catastrophic illness insurance, and government assistance, (for those who can't afford either), are better alternatives for the U.S. system than is a national health care plan.

And lastly, U.S. society has to make hard choices about where the finite health care resources go. Simply put, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.