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March 11, 2010

Death Panel? Canada Tries to Kill or Bankrupt Sick Man

Kent Pankow lives in Edmonton, in a province and a country that is trying to either kill him or bankrupt him.

 

No sense mincing words.

 

Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy.

 

Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer.

 

Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place.

 

Had he lung cancer, breast cancer, or colon cancer, then the cost of the drug — $4,555 per treatment, two times a month — would be totally covered by Alberta’s version of OHIP.

 

But he doesn’t.

 

And so he is not only a victim of brain cancer, he is also a victim of arbitrary discrimination.

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