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They flew to Denver, Colo. for the first of several treatments after the Alberta government denied funding for the out-of-country trips, saying comparable treatment was available in Canada. Jodi and Rob VanAssen disagree and will be taking Brooke to the U.S. for at least three more appointments at $35,000 to $40,000 each time.
“Brooke’s worth that kind of money,” said Rob VanAssen, Brooke’s father. “We had to do it and we can’t afford it ourselves, but we trust and know the Lord is in charge of all things.”
Idiots... they say they can be treated in Canada, and they reject this and still head to the US.
The title is misleading, yet again.
Why the hell should they fund a treatment outside of the country that's covered in Canada?
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Jodi VanAssen, Brooke’s mother, said, “The power of prayer has been awesome.”
Well then, I guess you don't need treatment.... just do what all these other fools did and just pray.
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“It’s probably been somewhat effective, but not very effective,” McGonigle said of Brooke’s early treatments. “In Brooke’s case, it’s hard to know what the right therapy is. I can tell you she needs therapy and she needs aggressive therapy.”
They're Early Treatments ffs... you're not supposed to expect miricles right off the bat num'nuts!
Her own parents are going to be the death of her and if they're not, then they're going to be living in poverty for something the Canadian UHC already was working on.
Another fool duped by an American doctor who promises the world for a price.
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Yakes said 80 per cent of the cases he treats with alcohol are cured. He sees about 1,000 patients each year from around the world, and helped train doctors in Cairo, London, Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Europe. He’s currently working with experts from the Czech Republic.
He said Brooke’s treatment is going well so far.
Well good luck to you on that... But I don't see why my tax dollars should go to pay for some procedure done in the US that only has an 80% chance of success and carries the same level of risks as the treatment already provided by Canada.
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John Tuckwell, spokesman for Alberta Health, said he can’t comment on Brooke’s case, but said the committee that looks at applications for out-of-country health care makes its decisions based solely on medical advice. The committee isn’t even told how much the treatments cost.
Tuckwell said the committee tries to determine if the treatment is available elsewhere in Canada rather than another country.
In its letter to the VanAssens, the committee said it denied funding because embolization treatment with glue is available in Alberta and Toronto, even though “it may not be the technique and/or particular treatment the parent prefers.”
^ There you have it... yet the parents in the report claim it's all about costs.
To me it is... to them it isn't and they found there is already a treatment available which is covered.
If you want the procedure covered, then you fight the government to cover it being done in Canada, not to fight for them to pay for some other country to do it at whatever price they put on their services.
But maybe that's just me an my heartless self.
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