Nine_ender makes out Canada to be a healthcare paradise. Here is yet another example of heartless failure in the Canadian healthcare system.
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Photo of elderly couple's heartbreaking goodbye is as sad as the story behind it
http://www.mnn.com/family/family-ac...les-heartbreaking-goodbye-sad-story-behind-it
This is Wolf and Anita Gottschalk of Surrey, British Columbia. They have been married for 62 years, and they have been inseparable for almost all of that time. But for the last eight months, Wolf and Anita have been forced to live apart. Their granddaughter, Ashley Bartyik, regularly drives her grandmother to visit her grandfather, but the the reunion — and the goodbyes — are always heartbreaking. Bartyik recently shared a photo of her grandparents saying their goodbyes, along with an explanation for why the pair have been separated, and it is moving the internet to tears.
Wolf, 83, was placed in a nursing home in January of this year after suffering from congestive heart failure. His wife, Anita, 81, currently lives in a different nursing home 30 minutes away. According to Bartyik, the family has been pleading with health care officials to get the couple reunited so that they can live together in the same nursing home, but to no avail. Bartyik blames the issue on "backlogs and delays by our health care system."
Bartyik drives her grandmother to visit her grandfather every other day. She snapped the photo that she shared on Facebook so that the rest of the world could see what it looks like every single time her grandparents have to say goodbye to one another.
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I actually think this story helps illustrate the positive aspect of our system, that these people get care at their advanced age at no cost to themselves or their family. If anyone, including yourself, wants to send them money for extra services, feel free to do so. Perhaps it is you that is "heartless" because you are not funding these people. Or do these people simply represent an opportunity for you to spew more mindless propaganda on a trading site ?
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